In the sweltering heat of Dhaka’s political cauldron, Muhammad Yunus\u2014once the Nobel laureate hailed as a beacon of microfinance and peace\u2014has morphed into a figure of profound controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since seizing power as interim Chief Adviser following the violent ouster of Sheikh Hasina in August 2024, Yunus’s regime has veered sharply toward pro-Pakistan policies, laced with provocative anti-India rhetoric and an alarming cosiness with Islamist militants. Reports suggest that a nascent Islamist militia, formed through alliances with Jamaat-e-Islami and radical outfits, is threatening to radicalise Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This trajectory not only imperils the nation’s fragile democracy but also poses an existential threat to India’s security, minorities in the region, and South Asian stability. As Defence Minister Rajnath Singh sternly warned Yunus last week to “watch his words,” the international community must confront this unravelling before it spirals into catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yunus’ Nobel sheen has faded; what remains is a regime bartering sovereignty for survival, allying with yesterday’s traitors to provoke tomorrow’s wars. South Asia cannot afford this gamble\u2014lest the “quiet Islamist coup” explode into open conflagration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Unnamed intelligence sources described it not as art, but a “message to transnational Islamist networks,” signalling Yunus’s alignment with forces eyeing India’s “Chicken’s Neck”\u2014the vulnerable 22-kilometre-wide Siliguri Corridor linking the mainland to the Northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This provocation fits a pattern of Yunus’s pro-Pakistan pivot, a stark reversal from Hasina’s era of robust Indo-Bangla ties. Under Hasina, Dhaka cracked down on cross-border terrorism, dismantling networks that funnelled insurgents into India’s Northeast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yunus, however, has thawed relations with Islamabad, inviting Pakistani military brass and echoing their anti-India playbook. Long a patron of Bangladeshi Islamists, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is reportedly exerting influence. According to intelligence leaks, ISI operatives have established a covert office in Dhaka’s Mohakhali DOHS, coordinating the smuggling of arms, including assault rifles, explosives, and night-vision gear, via Karachi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yunus’ overtures extend to China, with renewed economic pacts that sideline India, fueling New Delhi’s fears of a pincer movement on its eastern flank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n India’s response has been swift and strategic. In a bid to fortify the Siliguri Corridor, the Indian Army established three new outposts<\/a>: Lachit Borphukan Military Station in Assam’s Dhubri district and forward bases in Bihar’s Kishanganj and West Bengal’s Chopra\u2014all mere kilometres from the Bangladesh border. Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General R. C. Tiwari laid their foundations, emphasising enhanced surveillance and rapid response capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These sites, under the Tezpur-based 4 Corps and Brahmastra Corps, integrate with Rafale jets, BrahMos missiles, and S-400 air defenses, transforming the corridor from a vulnerability into a “strongest link,” as Army Chief General Manoj Pande asserted. The moves stem directly from Yunus’s overtures to Pakistan and China, with security agencies monitoring his regime’s every twitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ishtehar: The reason why the US wants to build a base in Bangladesh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jihadists wage war against ISKCON after police clear two Hindus of rape charges<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet, the provocations are not mere bluster; they are underpinned by Yunus’s deepening alliance with Jamaat-e-Islami and militant fringes\u2014an unholy matrimony that has resurrected ghosts of 1971. Jamaat, the pro-Pakistan outfit that collaborated with the Pakistani army during Bangladesh’s Liberation War, opposing independence and abetting genocide, was banned under Hasina for its terrorist ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yunus lifted that ban shortly after assuming power, a “strategic alliance to consolidate power,” critics charge, legitimising a party with deep ISI patronage and a vision of an Islamic state. In June 2025, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court restored Jamaat’s registration, paving its return to elections\u2014 a move that spells trouble for India, given the party’s advocacy for “Ghazwa-e-Hind,” the prophesied conquest of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jamaat’s rhetoric has turned incendiary. At a September 27, 2025, event in New York\u2014hosted by the Bangladesh American Association and attended by Yunus’s entourage\u2014Jamaat Nayeb-e-Amir Dr. Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher thundered that if India invaded post-Jamaat victory, “50 lakh youth will fight… implementing Ghazwa-e-Hind.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n He envisioned guerrilla warfare and a “war of independence” across the region, recasting 1971 collaborators as “true freedom fighters.” Taher, a former MP and ideological heir to the Muslim Brotherhood, boasted of Jamaat’s role in orchestrating the 2024 protests via its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir. This is no fringe voice: Jamaat now mobilises under “Touhidi Janata,” organising mobs nationwide while demanding Jizya\u2014a medieval tax on non-Muslims\u2014from Hindus, as Emir Dr. Shafiqur Rahman declared in July 2025, invoking Sharia to equate it with Muslim Zakat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worse, this alliance has birthed reports of an Islamist militia: the Islamic Revolutionary Army (IRA), a Yunus-backed force aimed at supplanting the Bangladesh Army. Leaks reveal the IRA’s genesis in December 2024, announced by Yunus-loyalist students under the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ideologically fueled by Jamaat’s narrative, it recruits from radical pools: Ansar al-Islam jihadists, Rohingya refugees, and stranded Pakistanis. Brigadier General Abdullahil Amaan Azmi\u2014son of war criminal Ghulam Azam and a Yunus confidant\u2014oversees the plot, training suicide squads for assaults on India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Azmi, reemerging in August 2024 after years in hiding, collaborates with pro-Pakistani ex-officers and ISI visitors, plotting to “Islamize” the army and dismantle the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI). By October 2025, Yunus’s regime charged 25 military officers with “crimes against humanity,” a purge to clear paths for IRA infiltration, analysts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Army Pullout: What it means for Bangladesh law and order<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n