NCP preparing for Turkish-style armed jihad in Bangladesh, assault on India

The Jamaat-backed National Citizen Party (NCP), a brainchild of West puppet and Pakistan lover Muhammad Yunus, has demanded mandatory armed training for the youth—apparently to prevent elections in February and fight against India occupying parts of the Seven Sisters.

The party also demands a new Constitution and the declaration of a Second Republic to remove the secular character of the state and turn it into a hardline Islamic country by downplaying the 1971 Liberation War and demonizing the Awami League as envisaged by its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, which had acted as a collaborator of the Pakistani Army to commit a gruesome genocide against the Bangalees.

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The call for mandatory armed training for youth, raised by NCP Convener Nahid Islam, echoes the views of the threats issued by banned militant groups, including al-Qaeda affiliate Ansar al-Islam and Hizb ut-Tahrir, of waging a war against India and expanding the country’s land and establishing a broader Bengal Sultanate.

Adviser Mahfuj Alam, a former Shibir leader who was one of the masterminds of the anti-government movement last year, also hinted at an armed struggle against India in a Facebook post on December 16 last year.

Both Mahfuj and Nahid are close associates of ultra-radical leftist cleric Farhad Mazhar.

Meanwhile, Jamaat’s student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, is closely working with the Turkish government and radical elements, like Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Qaeda, to promote jihadist activities in Bangladesh.

In late July, the Indian government took note of reports that an Islamist group in Dhaka called the “Saltanat-e-Bangla,” backed by Turkey, has put out a map of the so-called “Greater Bangladesh” that includes parts of India. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar made the statement during the question-and-answer session at the Rajya Sabha.

Jaishankar said the Saltanat-e-Bangla is backed by a Turkish NGO called the “Turkish Youth Federation.”

The map was displayed at an exhibition about the so-called earlier Bengal Sultanate at Dhaka University on April 14.

In March, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba operative and Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mufti Harun Izhar formed a jihadist alliance in a meeting with the Hefazat chief Muhibullah Babunagari at the Hathazari madrasa in Chittagong. Harun also met with an interim government adviser and ISI agent, Prof MD Nazrul Islam alias Asif Nazrul, seeking his assistance.

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Since the August changeover, some leaders of Chhatra Shibir and the banned militant group Hizb ut-Tahrir admitted their role as planners and coordinators during the movement.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari celebrated the fall of the Awami League government, while Pakistan-based terrorist groups Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jama’at-ut-Dawa admitted to having participated in the armed coup.

Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Army’s inclination towards Pakistan and patronisation of the Jamaat and local militant groups since the August 5 changeover last year clearly indicate the jihadist blueprint of forming an Islamic Revolutionary Army (IRA).

Two key actors of the Islamization of the army are Brig Gen (Retd) Abdullahil Amaan Azmi and Major (expelled) Syed Ziaul Haque, as the latter returned to Bangladesh last December with a Pakistani passport after being in hiding since 2011.

In December, Zia applied to the government for withdrawal of the seven cases against him, in which he was sentenced to death in three, while four cases are under trial. Through his lawyer, the jihadist leader also applied for cancellation of the Tk20 lakh bounty declared on him by the Police Headquarters.

Earlier this week, Zia asked the Yunus regime to allow offices for the rebels of Manipur, Khalistan, and Kashmir in Dhaka, after BBC Bangla reported that the Awami League maintains an office in India—a claim rejected by the party.

Zia also warned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the Awami League leaders and activists currently staying in India may forge a tie with the BJP ahead of the elections likely to be held in March-April next year.

According to intelligence sources, Azmi is helping Zia get a clean chit, and the duo are working together to provide commando training to the jihadists as suicide squad members. This group will work inside India and carry out sabotage, the intelligence sources say.

Another jihadist group, led by Azmi and ISI agent Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, is recruiting Rohingya refugees of Cox’s Bazar camps and the stranded Pakistanis in Dhaka and elsewhere to give them jihadist training, the sources say.

For this mission, Azmi is being assisted by the Pakistani High Commissioner, Syed Ahmed Maroof, who travelled to Cox’s Bazar several times to sit with the top leaders of militant groups Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), Islami Mahaz, and Arakan National Defence Force (ANDF) in December, February, and May.

Meanwhile, the US is helping the Arakan Army via Bangladesh with arms and logistics to occupy the Rakhine State and weaken Chinese influence. But the Myanmar junta’s announcement of elections in December may force the regional armed groups to change their plans.

Under the circumstances, it is obvious that the Bangladeshi jihadist groups and radical Islamist parties, including NCP, Jamaat, and Islami Andolan Bangladesh, will tend to join the fight in the Seven Sisters and the Rakhine State.