US not pushing for specific time for election in Bangladesh
Unb, Dhaka
The Bush administration has said there ought to be a timeline for election in Bangladesh to satisfy its people although it (US) is not pushing for a specific time for election."The goal of this government has to be to develop a programme to get back to elections. And so what we've looked for is not so much a particular date," a senior State Department official said at a briefing, according to a PTI report from Washington. He stressed that the government in Dhaka will have to develop a programme to get back to election in the country and that has to be done as soon as possible. Regarding the ultimate goal of the caretaker government, the official said, "They want to clean up politics, they want to clean up corruption problems, they want to cerate a certain political renewal. But the goal has to be to get back to election," he said. Responding to a query on terrorism, the official said the elimination of the terror networks in Bangladesh is a top priority for Washington. "As far as eliminating the terrorist networks in Bangladesh, this is truly a priority. We don't want to see Bangladesh falls prey to violence and political extremism that have afflicted other countries," the official said at Washington Foreign Press Centre.
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