• "If India Attacks Pak..": Muhammad Yunus' Close Aide Threatens To Occupy Northeast India

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    "If India Attacks Pak..": Muhammad Yunus' Close Aide Threatens To Occupy Northeast India
    In a Facebook post in Bengali, Rahman wrote that it would be necessary to start discussions on a joint military arrangement with China regarding the occupation of India's Northeast.

    Digital Desk: ALM Fazlur Rahman, a former Director General of the Border Guard Bangladesh and a close aide of the country's chief advisor Muhammad Yunus has threatened to occupy India's seven Northeast states if the country launches an attack on Pakistan over the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 27 civilians on April 22.

    In a Facebook post in Bengali, Rahman wrote that it would be necessary to start discussions on a joint military arrangement with China regarding the occupation of India's Northeast.

    ALM Fazlur Rahman's statement comes at a time when India and Bangladesh have been trying to boost bilateral ties after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India seeking asylum.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh's interim leader Yunus held talks in Bangkok, Thailand, on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit for the first time since Hasina's ouster from her country.  

    ALM Fazlur Rahman is the Chairman of the National Independent Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the 2009 Pilkhana massacre.

    However, Bangladesh's Interim government has distanced itself from the statement made by Fazlur Rahman.

    Amid heightened tensions with India, Pakistan has shut over 1,000 religious schools in Pakistani Kashmir over fear of a possible Indian military attack.