After years of failed negotiations, Bangladesh and Canada have finally agreed to hold talks to find a way to the thorny issue of extraditing fugitive Noor Chowdhury - the self-confessed killer of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman..

The two countries reached a consensus during a meeting between Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau in Montreal last week, the national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.

After the talks, Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Huq told reporters that the officials of two countries would find out a way for extradition of Chowdhury from Canada. "The aim of the discussion would be to bring Noor Chowdhury to justice and execute the verdict of the Bangabandhu murder case," he said.

Huq said the government has been trying to extradite Chowdhury, who is in his 70s, from Canada and this decision will open a new window to bring him to Bangladesh.

Chowdhury is a former Bangladeshi military officer who was convicted in absentia in the August 1975 for the assassination of Sheikh Mujib.

Last year Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came down heavily Canada for giving shelter to Chowdhury.

Noor Chowdhury lives in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian government has opted not to deport Chowdhury. His refugee claims have been rejected and he is technically under a deportation order. But Ottawa does not extradite those facing execution overseas after Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that it could not extradite fugitives without obtaining assurances they would not be executed.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman aka Bangabandhu and his family were brutally killed in Aug 1975 by some army officials, and out of the 12 convicted, five were hanged in 2010, one died and six are on the run.

A group of rouge army men killed Bangladesh’s independence architect and most of his family on Aug 15, 1975, barely four years after liberation.

Bangabandhu’s daughters Hasina and Sheikh Rehana were abroad at the time.

Twelve men were condemned to death for their role in the killing. Five of them have been executed but six others are abroad.

Chowdhury was granted visitor status in Canada in 1996, and hasn't left the country since.