I was stuck here,” he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he sells desiccated fish and prawns ... He is one of the seven elected leaders from the Bengali community in Karachi’s municipal government.
Shah Alam travelled from his home in Bangladesh to Pakistan for a brief visit nearly three decades ago, but flaring hostility between the two countries and financial woes left him stranded in the megacity of Karachi... .
West BengalChief MinisterMamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that Bengali-speaking people were being harassed and branded as “infiltrators” in some states, and asserted that her government would not allow anyone’s rights to be taken away.