New Delhi, July 22 -- DHAKA - President Mohammed Shahabuddin of Bangladesh resigned overnight on Tuesday, departing for Singapore where he is expected to reside permanently, ending a ceremonial tenure that had become increasingly untenable as political pressure mounted from the Yunus regime and aligned forces in Dhaka. His departure clears the way for Nasimul Gani, the current Cabinet Secretary and former Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, to assume the presidency in a transition that sources familiar with the appointment describe as directly orchestrated by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and military establishment.

Shahabuddin had been under sustained pressure from the National Citizen Party, which emerged from the stude...