New Delhi, July 29 -- Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 15-minute long videocon with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan may have upset India, especially its paranoid strategic-security establishment. But Indian diplomatic circles, though ill at ease with the growing influence of a pro-Pakistan adviser in the Hasina PMO, sees some opportunity in the Imran-Hasina dialogue.

In 1998, Hasina, a first-time PM at that time, did play a "very positive role" in reopening India-Pakistan dialogue after the nuclear tests by both countries created a very toxic environment. Very little of that got into the public domain but both then prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif were full of praise for Hasina's role at that time.

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