Bangladesh wades into the Shamima Begum row

Bangladesh wades into the Shamima Begum row

The 19-year-old has been stripped of her British citizenship.

The Bangladeshi interior minister has said that the current issues with Shamima Begum's citizenship and the UK is not of his countries concern.

Asaduzzaman Khan said when asked about links that Ms Begum has with his country, he said: "This is a matter of the British government. Bangladesh has nothing to do with this" 

 

Britain stripped the teenager, who travelled from London to join the Islamic State group, of her citizenship on security grounds, triggering a row over the ramifications of leaving a 19-year-old mother with a jihadist fighter's child to fend for herself in a war zone. 

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