Key Highlights
- The report mentions a closed-door meeting between a US official and a Bangladeshi journalist held in Dhaka on December 1.
- According to the report, the US wanted Jamaat leaders to be "friends".
- "We want them to be our friend," the report cited the US diplomat as saying.
- The diplomat said that the country has “shifted Islamic” and predicted Jamaat-e-Islami would “do better than it’s ever done before” in the Feb.
- 12 election, according to the audio recordings. The US official had reportedly asked the local journalist to bring members of the party's influential student wing, the Islami Chhatra Shibir, onto their television programmes. US Embassy Dismisses Claim The US embassy, however, has dismissed the claim that Washington supported any "particular party" in Dhaka."The conversation that took place in December was a routine gathering, off-the-record discussion between US Embassy officials and local journalists.
