By IANS
Dhaka : Bangladesh has appointed educationist Yasmeen Murshed as high commissioner to Pakistan, the first woman to hold the post since the separation of the two countries in 1971.
Kolkata-born Murshed, 62, was partly educated in Islamabad and Lahore in the erstwhile west wing of Pakistan where her husband was posted and her maternal uncle, Habibur Rahman, was a federal minister.
She is now an advisor to a caretaker government in charge of the Ministry of Women and Child Welfare.
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