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When, following a political crisis in
Bangladesh, a caretaker government was formed in January 2007, Iftekhar Chowdhury was sworn in as the foreign minister in the Fakhruddin Ahmed cabinet. He was also put in charge of two additional ministries, Overseas Employment and Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.
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