Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to arrive in Bangladesh on Friday for talks primarily focused on labour issues, according to Dhaka officials.

The Malaysian high commissioner says the prime minister will be meeting with the government led by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus.

Bangladesh has recalled five envoys, including the ambassador to neighbouring India, foreign ministry officials said on Thursday, in a major diplomatic reshuffle as the interim government clears out holdovers from the previous administration.

The interim government in Bangladesh withdrew its high commissioner to India, Mustafizur Rahman with immediate effect, a day after the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Pranay Verma met and discussed ways to promote bilateral relations between two neighbouring countries with the Foreign Affairs Adviser of the Government of Bangladesh,

The orders issued by the administration division of Bangladesh’s foreign ministry have not gone down well within the country’s foreign service