‘Anti-India forces to unite and capture Northeast India’: Bangladeshi Army Colonel’s offensive audacity flares tempers in the region

Colonel Abdul Haq joined Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in September 2023.

Written by: Tahir Qureshi Edited by: Tahir Qureshi

Published: December 4, 2025, 12:28 AM IST

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New Delhi: Another Bangladeshi military officer has spewed venom against India. Retired Jamaat supporter Colonel Abdul Haq called for the unification of anti-India forces to capture Northeast India. His demand resonates with Mohammad Yunus’s statement, in which he indirectly invited China to occupy the region. Furthermore, Yunus publicly gifted a photograph of a map showing this region as part of Bangladesh to a senior Pakistani Army officer.

Who is Colonel Abdul Haq?

Retired Bangladeshi Army Colonel Abdul Haq is considered a supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami. After retirement, he engages in pro-Pakistan Islamist politics. He has previously made anti-India statements. Colonel Abdul Haq joined Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in September 2023. The political ideology of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami is almost identical. Both pursue anti-India politics. Colonel Abdul Haq is also promoting this ideology by making anti-India statements.

Former Bangladesh General also spews venom

Earlier, Abdullahil Aman Azmi, a former Bangladesh Army General, had said that complete peace will not come to Bangladesh until India is divided into several pieces. Abdullahil Aman Azmi’s father was the head of the anti-India Jamaat-e-Islami and was convicted for the massacre of Hindus and pro-independence Bengalis during the 1971 Liberation War. It is believed that this ideology has led Aman Azmi to use venomous language against India.

What Azmi Said

Azmi claimed, “The Parbatiya Chattogram Jana Samhati Committee was formed during the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government. Its armed wing is the Shanti Bahini. India sheltered it, provided arms and training. This led to bloodshed in the Bangladesh hills between 1975 and 1996.” He criticized the Chittagong Hill Accords, signed in 1997 between the Bangladesh government and the Parbatiya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti.