India terms Bangla media reports on defence pact 'imaginary'

India today rejected as "imaginary" Bangladeshi media reports which claimed that the two countries were planning to sign a bilateral defence pact.

"These reports are totally untrue. The reports are speculative and imaginary. There is no proposal to conclude a Defence Agreement under consideration," a spokesman of the Indian High Commission here said in a statement.

The statement came in the wake of reports here about the "proposal to conclude Defence Agreement between Bangladesh and India."

Right wing Naya Diganta newspaper had carried a report two days back, claiming that Dhaka and New Delhi were pondering about a long-term defence pact.

Referring to the report, former prime minister Khaleda Zia's main opposition BNP's secretary general Khondker Delwar yesterday said the proposed pact was "unnecessary" and it would not be acceptable.