India cannot afford a Taliban-style regime on its NE border
India flanks Bangladesh on three sides and the geo-strategic Bay of Bengal covers the fourth side. Then there is the very strategic corridor connecting the land locked North Eastern States of India to rest of India.
Therefore India just cannot afford to let Bangladesh slide into the hands of Islamist extremists backed by Khalifa of Ankara and Marshal of Islamabad. India has to take urgently all diplomatic, security, and humanitarian stock of the situation, before it’s too late.
Bangladesh is being ideologically annexed just like it happened in Afghanistan in 1990s. The country now stands at the edge of an abyss because of the deadly nexus of Islamist forces operating from Turkey and Pakistan.
The new Caliphate quietly installed now controls Yunus’s domestic Islamist agenda. India must not repeat the mistake of ignoring this Talibanization of Bengalis of East Bengal.
This dangerous spread must be confronted immediately, or a full-blown Islamic Caliphate under foreign influence will surely trigger major instability in entire North East, West Bengal and even areas of Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa. Dhaka has all the ingredients to become a new epicentre of global terrorism.
In just less than one year a Talibinized Yunus regime has quietly radicalized the country’s internal security apparatus. A staggering 17,000 new recruits have been absorbed into the police, border guard, and coast guard – many of whom, according to credible reports, hail from hardline Islamist backgrounds.
Most lack even the basic training required to function within a disciplined force signalling a collapse in institutional standards and the deliberate Islamization of Bangladesh’s security forces. Bangladesh’s internal machinery is being recast in a militant Islamist mold.
This move has monumental implications for the Bangladesh Armed Forces, which still remains a Secular Nationalist Force by and large. A Country created by Bangabandhu, once celebrated for its secular democratic values and resilience against religious extremism, is now close to an Islamist abyss under Muhammad Yunus.
There is also an alarming growing influence of radical clerics. One of the chief ideological allies of Muhammad Yunus is Mufti Fazlul Karim, the pir of Chormonai and head of Islami Shashontontro Bangladesh – a movement that envisions replacing democracy with Islamic Sharia governance.
Mufti Karim has made brazen public declarations about turning Bangladesh into “Afghanistan under the Taliban”, stating that Hindus may enjoy rights only if they “abide by Sharia law”. This is not a fringe voice anymore. It is a voice that now echoes in the corridors of power.
Strangely – the US Deep State – in collaboration with Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) – appears to be facilitating this Islamist makeover, reminiscent of their Cold War-era adventures in Afghanistan.
While during his first tenure, President Donald Trump had once spoken about confronting jihadism, under the current American administration, these dangers are being conveniently overlooked – possibly to preserve defense sales, geopolitical leverage, and the profits of the Western military-industrial complex.
On July 6, Yunus even a delegation of international Muslim NGOs under the umbrella of the Union of NGOs of the Islamic World (UNIW). The meeting focused on expanding “social business” initiatives to “support the Muslim world.” This may sound innocuous, but a closer look at the participants and their affiliations reveals something far more sinister.
Delegates included: Eyüp Akbal, Secretary General of UNIW (Turkey), Muhammed Hüseyin Akta, Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), Fauwaz Bin Hasbullah, WADAH Malaysia, Muhammad Abdus Shakoor, Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan, and Dr. Salamun Bashri, UNIW Indonesia.
This convergence of Turkish, Pakistani, Malaysian, and Indonesian Islamist operatives in Dhaka is no mere coincidence – it is a declaration of ideological and strategic intent. It signals Erdoğan’s growing ambition to carve out ideological strongholds far beyond Anatolia, right into the heart of South Asia.
Then on July 8, Erdoğan’s military diplomacy sent Prof. Haluk Görgün, Turkey’s Secretary of Defence Industries, to Dhaka to discuss deepening bilateral defense ties. The discussions included proposals to jointly produce modern military equipment and develop defense technologies in Bangladesh in partnership with Türkiye.
Just like the Khalifa, even Yunus has launched an unprecedented crackdown on journalists in Bangladesh, mimicking Erdoğan’s playbook in Turkey. Erdoğan’s Turkey is the world’s largest jailer of journalists, with hundreds incarcerated under flimsy charges of “terrorist propaganda” or “conspiracy”. Bangladesh is now following this same path.
Independent journalists, editors, and dissenters are being surveilled, harassed, and even detained. Media houses are being forced into silence, either by coercion or co-option.
Well a welcome news in all this has been the happenings in the jungles of Myanmar. On July13 and 14, a ghost operation by some entity struck terror camps deep in Sagaing area. Whoever struck is not known but it erased ULFA leadership and obliterated UNLFW camps killing hundreds.
This can be a signal to Yunus to mend his ways and hand over the reigns of Bangladesh to a lawfully and peacefully elected government or be ready to face the consequences.
Source : Blitz
