The recent assessment highlighting Pakistan-backed terror groups’ attempts to revive networks in India’s northeastern states and West Bengal is not an isolated alert. It is part of a pattern, one that India has seen, studied, and suffered from for decades. But what should really worry security watchers is the report’s central claim: that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is once again using Bangladeshi soil as a quiet, deniable launchpad for cross-border terror operations.

This is not the first time such accusations have surfaced. Historically, when Pakistan feels pressure on the western front, it looks eastward, seeking soft targets, vulnerable borders, and politically distracted neighbourhoods. Today, the revival attempts of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) networks—infamous for attacks from Mumbai to Parliament—signal a strategic recalibration, one that must be understood in the larger geopolitical context of South Asia.

A Madrasa Disappears, And With It, The Evidence

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, the well-known Bangladeshi journalist and editor of Blitz, paints a disturbing picture. His report, published by the Usanas Foundation, highlights the sudden, silent shutdown of a major madrasa near Dhaka, long flagged as a hotbed of radicalisation and suspected to have maintained communication channels with donors and religious charities linked to Pakistan and the Gulf.

The timing........

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