'Concerns India' Bangladesh Becoming "Another Pakistan ?
The active foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), now operate with what he called "an open hand" in Bangladesh is a concers India.
Bangladesh has descended into what it called a "failed state" and could become a breeding ground for regional terrorism unless the international community intervenes.
That foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), now operate with what he called "an open hand" in Bangladesh.
Hundreds of convicted terrorists - men previously arrested and jailed under the Awami League government - have since been released from prison. The banned groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir now march openly and that individuals linked to al-Qaeda have addressed public rallies.
What should concern India most is that Bangladesh has become another Pakistan on India's eastern side. Now we have another Pakistan today on your eastern front... al-Qaeda operatives are speaking at public rallies.
This is what is happening in Bangladesh, and this does not portend well for India or the world at large gathering, framing this as a direct security concern for New Delhi.
In the future, the next generation of global terrorists is going to come from Bangladesh unless this is stopped it is bounded duty for Govt of India to arrest the ISI, al-Qaeda and Hizb ut-Tahrir give the issue sustained coverage rather than treating it as an occasional threat
It is all most six months after Bangladesh's parliamentary elections, in which the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, won a decisive majority and formed a government following the end of Muhammad Yunus's interim administration.
The Awami League, which Yunus's caretaker government had banned from political activity and barred from contesting the election, remains excluded from the political process - a point Joy raised repeatedly to argue that the vote could not be considered fully representative.
Beyond the security warning, several times also raised several other grievances. He disputed the death count from the July-August 2024 protests that led to Hasina's ouster, noting a gap of roughly 600 between United Nations estimates (around 1,400) and the government's figure (around 800), and said the UN had not responded to repeated requests from Awami League lawyers for the names behind the higher count.
An "Indemnity Bill," passed under the Yunus administration and since ratified by the BNP government, which granted blanket immunity to protesters - including for killings of police officers, civilians and Awami League members - while leaving no path to prosecute those deaths.
Thousands of Awami League members and sympathisers, including elderly former officials, have been held in custody for extended periods without trial or bail, some dying in custody under circumstances he described as extrajudicial killings.
Party members continue to be targeted and killed outside prison "every few weeks" without police action.
The journalists, editors and media owners perceived as sympathetic to the Awami League have remained jailed for over two years, and alleged that intelligence officials visited Indian media houses to discourage coverage.
Bangladesh's economy, already strained, is at risk of "total collapse" under what he called continued mismanagement and predicted the country's political trajectory, including future elections, would remain skewed in the ruling party's favour.
The remarks reflect the Awami League's perspective on events since Hasina's August 2024 ouster and have not been independently verified.
The BNP-led government, Yunus's former interim administration and Bangladeshi authorities have not yet responded to the specific claims made at Wednesday's event, and dispute the Awami League's broader characterisation of the political situation.
