Dhaka, June 26 -- Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday ruled out any new alliance among Bangladesh, China and Pakistan, and stressed that it was not done targeting Bangladesh's neighbouring country - India.

"We are not forming any alliance. It was a meeting at the official level, not at the political level.. there was no element of formation of any alliance," he told reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while responding to a question.

Asked whether the meeting was aimed at making India cornered, Adviser Hossain said it is certainly not targeting a third-party. "I can assure you."

Bangladesh, China and Pakistan held an 'informal' trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 9th China-South Asia Exposition and the ...