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Tara Shankar Sahay in New Delhi
Bangladesh on Monday assured India that Dhaka was aware of reports about atrocities committed on Hindu minority by fundamentalist elements, and it would do everything to protect them and bring the guilty to book, according to external affairs spokeswoman Nirupama Rao.
Rao told reporters that the assurance from Bangladesh came when the Indian High Commissioner Mani Lal Tripathi met the Bangladesh Minister of State for Religious Affairs Musharraf Hussain Shahjahan.
Shahjahan assured Tripathi that the government was looking into the matter and would not spare those found guilty, she said.
She also pointed out that Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia thanked her Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee in a letter dated October 21 for his congratulatory message on her assuming the prime ministership.
The spokeswoman said the Bangladesh prime minister fully agreed with Vajpayee that the bonds of Indo-Bangladesh friendship had to be further strengthened 'including in depth and dimension'.
Begum Khaleda looked forward to her visit to India in the 'near future', Rao said.
Asked on media reports about the impending meeting between Prime Minister Vajpayee with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Rao said, "I have no information (about it)."
Asked about the reported differences between the Northern Alliance and the US regarding the post-conflict scenario in Afghanistan, she said she could not comment on it.
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