In the shadowed corridors of South Asian geopolitics, a chilling alliance is taking shape—one that resurrects the ghosts of 1971’s brutal genocide and threatens to destabilise an entire subcontinent.

Bangladesh, the nation born from the blood-soaked soil of India’s heroic intervention against Pakistani atrocities, is now embracing the very architects of its suffering. The upcoming visit of Pakistan’s Navy Chief, Admiral Naveed Ashraf, to Dhaka on November 8, 2025, is not mere diplomacy; it is a brazen signal of a deepening military entanglement, laced with the insidious fingerprints of jihadist networks. Regional analyses paint a picture of unchecked ISI infiltration and jihadist safe havens. This “tie-up" emerges not as a partnership but as a sinister conspiracy to erode Bangladesh’s sovereignty and fan the flames of instability along India’s vulnerable eastern flanks.

The timeline of this unholy rapprochement is as alarming as it is rapid. Just weeks ago, Pakistan’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, concluded a four-day schmooze-fest in Dhaka, rubbing shoulders with Bangladesh’s interim Chief Adviser, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, and the triumvirate of military brass: Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman, Navy Chief Admiral Mohammad Nazmul Hassan, and Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmud Khan. This wasn’t idle chit-chat. Mirza’s entourage—comprising eight high-ranking officers, including a Major General from the notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)—brokered a joint intelligence-sharing framework. The crown jewel? The establishment of a dedicated ISI cell within Pakistan’s High Commission in Dhaka, complete with a Brigadier, two Colonels, four Majors, and ancillary........

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