Pak bank official sent back from Dhaka airport

A joint director of the State Bank of Pakistan was sent back from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka today as she had no Visa to visit Bangladesh.

Asma Khalid arrived in the airport by a flight of Qatar Airways around 6:00pm yesterday, an official of immigration police told The Daily Star today.

“We did not allow her to get out of the airport as she was not carrying a Bangladeshi Visa,” the official said adding that there is no agreement of issuing on arrival Visa between the two countries. 

The bank official took a flight of Pakistan Airlines around 1:30pm from airport for her country, said the immigration official preferring anonymity.