The headline of Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury’s article on December 16 “How India cut Pak down to size” might unwittingly touch on a sensitive nerve in India’s relations with a booming Bangladesh. That ghost popped out again when historian Sarmila Bose, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grand-niece and author of Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, argued in the current …
The protests that have been going on in Bangladesh since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Dhaka visit have a very strong element of support from Pakistan, according to sources. The first indication of Pakistan’s involvement in the agitation during PM Modi’s visit came when the Islamist hardline group Hefazat-e-Islam called for protests and Bangladesh parliament’s official Twitter wrote, “Pak HC #Dhaka’s …