BIG worry for India as Bangladesh and Pakistan hatch new deadly plan, ISI agents to operate…

The new development comes amidst a downward spiral in the once-friendly India-Bangladesh relations, that have taken a nosedive after the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and an interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad, coming to the helm in Dhaka.

India-Bangladesh relations: In another blow to the fast-deteriorating India-Bangladesh relations, Bangladesh has reportedly relaxed visa restrictions, including security clearance for Pakistani nationals, which experts believe, will result in a surge in the movement Pakistani intelligence agents in Bangladesh.

According to defence experts, the new development would mean unrestrained movement of Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents in Bangladesh, which poses a major security threat to India as the two countries share long and porous borders. Experts believe that Bangladesh’s decision to relax visa rules for Pakistan poses a dual threat to India as Dhaka will now get more intelligence reports against India from Islamabad and vice versa.

The move will also strengthen Pakistan-Bangladesh security relations, and at the same time ensure that Dhaka keeps moving away from New Delhi’s sphere of influence, they added.

As per experts, this is a major security concern for India as this new relationship between Pakistan and Bangladesh, would translate into increased infiltration in India’s northeastern states, especially Assam.

‘Bangladesh would become East Pakistan’

Colonel Ajay Raina (Rtd), a senior defense analyst, claimed that its a “established fact” that the American deep-state brought about the regime change in Bangladesh via Pakistan’s ISI. According to Raina, Bangladesh’s interim government has released “terrorists” who were jailed by deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime, and they (the terrorists) are now part of Dhaka’s government machinery.

“It won’t be surprising at all if Bangladesh once more becomes defacto East Pakistan, like it was before 1971. They will come together to hatch conspiracies against India,” the army veteran claimed, while expressing concern that the Bangladesh and Pakistan coming closer would result in a surge in terrorist attacks, cross-border drug smuggling, and infiltration in India.

Radical elements planning to infiltrate northeast?

As per a report by India Today, a Pakistan-backed extremist organization, Jamaat, has established itself in Ambarkhana area in Sylhet, and is reportedly planning to infiltrate its cadres into India’s northeastern states. The report, citing intelligence agencies, claimed that Islamic fundamentalist elements in Bangladesh’s sensitive Brahmanbaria district, which is close to the Assam-Meghalaya border.

Notably, a senior Bangladeshi academic, Dr Shahiduzzaman, had recently made controversial remarks against India, and urged the Bangladesh to separatists and insurgents in northeastern India.

Dr Shahiduzzaman, a political commentator and professor at Dhaka University, who had earlier urged Bangladesh to sign a nuclear treaty with Pakistan, urged Dhaka to procure the JF-17 fighter jets from Islamabad, and lend support to separatists and insurgents in northeastern India.

India-Bangladesh relations

The new development comes amidst a downward spiral in the once-friendly India-Bangladesh relations, that have taken a nosedive after the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and an interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad, coming to the helm in Dhaka.

Bangladesh has witnessed widespread communal violence against minorities, especially Hindus, which has soured Dhaka’s ties with New Delhi, with the latter accusing the Yunus-led interim government of not doing enough, and turning a blind eye to the atrocities perpetrated by radical Islamist elements against the minority Hindu community in the country.

Bangladesh has witnessed a seismic shift in the administrative machinery since the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina regime, as bureaucrats with Hindu and Awami League affiliations, have reportedly been forced to resign, while officials with radical leanings, including those belonging to the Jamaat, have been brought in.