New Delhi/Dhaka: In what could be a cause of major concern for New Delhi, a group of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is said to have reached Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Investigative reporter Sahidul Hasan Khokon has claimed that the group was on board Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight BG-342, which departed from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, landed at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 4.20 am on January 30. The flight was carrying a total of 113 passengers.
The journalist has also provided passport details of some of the terrorists to bolster his claim, as reported by Zee News.
The Bangladeshi journalist claimed that several individuals on board were identified as members of the LeT. Their identities and organisational links were openly reflected in their passport details, he has claimed, raising serious concerns over security failures.
Sahidul suggests that such entries point to either gross negligence or intentional oversight by the ruling junta, highlighting alarming gaps in border control and passenger screening. Elections in Bangladesh are less than two weeks away and the arrival of the group at this time is certainly a matter of concern.
There are reports that that Pakistan may use Dhaka to launch a terror attack against India, especially after New Delhi’s stand that any terror attack from Islamabad would be considered an act of war.
A report in Eurasia Review said that although the Pakistani military’s use of brute force during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War failed to stop secession and the subsequent creation of Bangladesh, Pakistan continued its efforts at Islamisation of the masses to provide a strong religious bond with the country.
The current situation in Bangladesh has made it easy for the radical Islamist groups to gain a foothold – a vulnerability that Pakistan has exploited fully, the report says.
There are strong indications that Islamabad is whipping up anti-Hindu sentiments and organising a conglomerate of terrorist organisations to target India. As such, New Delhi not only needs to be prepared for this eventuality but also adopt a proactive stance to counter this menace, it noted.
A report in Bangladeshi weekly ‘Blitz’, by permitting its territory to serve as a logistical and ideological base, Bangladesh risks becoming embroiled in Pakistan’s long-standing conflict with India.
For Pakistan’s deep state, terrorism is not an aberration it is doctrine. While the world remains distracted by diplomatic theatrics and hollow pledges of reform from Islamabad, Pakistan’s ISI has quietly reactivated its most lethal playbook: proxy jihad against India. Timed ominously with Indias Republic Day celebrations, fresh intelligence reveals that the ISI is orchestrating a multi-layered campaign of terror, subversion, and ideological warfare stretching from West Bengal to Bangladesh, and extending into Indian diplomatic missions across the West, the report states.
