Dhaka, April 15 -- Bangladesh and Pakistan will hold Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) in Dhaka on Thursday, marking the first such meeting since 2010.

Foreign Secretary Md Jashim Uddin and Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch will lead the Bangladesh and Pakistan sides respectively at the FOC to be held at state guest house Padma.

Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Baloch, who assumed the charge as the 33rd Foreign Secretary of Pakistan on September 11 last year, is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday to join the talks with her Bangladesh counterpart, a senior official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told UNB.

Pakistan wanted to hold the consultations with Bangladesh as part of Islamabad's efforts to strengthen the ties with D...