Former diplomat and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute President M Humayun Kabir also expressed uncertainty over the issue.

Bangladesh's interim government announced on Sunday it has reintroduced the "except Israel" inscription on the country's passports, formally debarring its citizens from travelling to the Jewish state.

Immigration deputy DG says 200 to 300 forged documents had been sold during the past six months.

Bangladeshis seeking to leave the country are not getting visas easily. The Bangladesh passport is the seventh weakest in the world.

Lokman Effendi added that the operations team seized 22 suspected forged Bangladeshi passports, access cards, a computer set, a printer, a cutting machine, a laser engraving machine, a curve cutter, ...