A top Bangladesh official has declared that controversial writer Taslima Nasreen is of no concern to his country anymore. She has ceased to be its citizen long since.
A top Bangladesh official has declared that controversial writer Taslima Nasreen is of no concern to his country anymore. She has ceased to be its citizen long since, he has maintained.
Taslima, who was born in Mymensingh in Bangladesh, was forced to leave the country in 1994, after the Bangladesh government banned her novels for blasphemy.In a conversation with the Hindustan Times at the Bangladesh foreign ministry office in Dhaka, Hossain said while Bangladesh was indeed keeping itself posted on developments related to Taslima, it had no opinion on Taslima Nasreen’s present situation.
“She is India’s problem and India is doing what it thinks is best. Beyond this I would not want to comment.”
He argued that when Taslima acquired a Swedish passport, she ceased to be a Bangladesh citizen.
“We have no agreement on dual citizenship with Sweden. The moment she became a Swedish national, her Bangladesh citizenship got automatically cancelled,” he said.
The present caretaker government considers Taslima to be like any other foreigner. If she wants to enter Bangladesh, she has to apply for a visa. And it is at the discretion of the government to decide whether to give her one or not. As for her properties here, people across the world own properties outside their countries, Hossain said.
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The writer, who is under treatment (for some ailment), said she would return to India sometime in July, after the panchayat polls in West Bengal and before the expiry of a six-month residential permit granted by the Government of India.
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