Runa Laila dances with Indian envoy

Left to Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila, South Asia's leaders would be singing in perfect harmony.

At a gala dinner hosted on Thursday night for the visiting foreign ministers from Saarc member states, the singer who took India by storm in the late Seventies was the evening's main entertainment.

Runa soon had Dhaka's glitterati and its multi-ethnic visitors tapping their feet and clapping their hands.

Indian Ambassador to Bangladesh Veena Sikri hitched up her saree and gave herself a twirl on the dance floor.