In the complex matrix of South Asian security, a troubling development has come to light, one that exposes the dual nature of India's intelligence apparatus. Bangladesh's National Security Intelligence (NSI) recently unearthed a clandestine network orchestrated by India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) to recruit Bangladeshi nationals into Fitna-al-Khawarij (FaK) which is a terrorist organisation operating inside Pakistan. This revelation underscores not only the growing reach of Indian intelligence operations but also its dangerous reliance on proxy networks in order to pursue regional destabilisation.

The results of NSI showed that there are at least 25 citizens of Bangladesh, excluding four of them killed in Afghanistan, who are active participants in the terrorist operations linked to FaK in Pakistan. They were said to have been used as puppets and sent to the Pakistani land like a disposable commodity, meant to penetrate the country in the name of religious........

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