Notorious Yunus aide says Bangladesh should seize India’s Northeastern states if India attacks Pakistan

Dhaka: Tapped by Intervening time Authorities’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus for a high-level role, Important Total (Retd.) A L M Fazlur Rahman, a outdated Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Director Total, has sparked diplomatic ripples with an incendiary social media post which implies that Bangladesh should ally with China to lift India’s northeastern states if India retaliates in opposition to Pakistan over essentially the most contemporary Pahalgam apprehension assault.

“If India attacks Pakistan, Bangladesh should bear the seven states of Northeastern India. I assume it is crucial to launch up discussions with China on a joint navy arrangement in this regard,” Rahman wrote.

Rahman, who has pro-Pakistan leanings and is linked to radical Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) social gathering, is notoriously remembered in India as one of essentially the major figures in the tainted killing of 16 BSF jawans at Boraibari along the Assam-Meghalaya -Bangladesh tri-junction on April 18, 2001.

Rahman’s most contemporary overtly political appointment by the Yunus-led intervening time administration as Chairman of the National Fair Commission probing the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at Pilkhana whereby 74 folks, at the side of navy officers, had been killed all the contrivance by means of a mutiny has stirred controversy.

His most contemporary situation is equal to a resolve of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh’s Supreme Court. Rahman is a identified ‘anti-India’ resolve and has accused India of influencing affairs of Bangladesh.

The intervening time executive has fleet moved to disown the remarks. Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a observation on Friday, firmly distancing the manager from Rahman’s comments.

“The comments attain now not replicate the location or policies of the manager of Bangladesh, and as such, the manager neither endorses nor supports such rhetoric in any beget or formulation,” it acknowledged.

Fazlur Rahman’s remarks are being viewed as views of Yunus on his executive’s ties with China. Within the midst of his consult with to China in March, Yunus pitched for “extension of the Chinese language economy” and made the intriguing remarks that with Northeast India being “landlocked,” Dhaka is the “best guardian of the ocean for all this advise”.

Since Yunus took over in August 2024, as many as 140 garment factories beget shut down, with more than one lakh folks shedding their jobs. The perfect textile industrial park, BEXIMCO has also been shut down. About 62 per cent of the steel Commerce in Chattogram is at possibility of closure. Manufacturing of vital products take care of steel rods, cement and urea fertiliser are severely disrupted, pushing Bangladesh economy into a deep disaster.

Alarmingly, Bangladesh suffers one of the best inflation price of 9.35 per cent making matters worse. The political uncertainties created by Yunus’s intervening time administration beget deterred funding, stifled progress and constrained job introduction in Bangladesh. There became a time when Bangladesh became rising as one of essentially the most promising economies on this planet.