K N Pandita
Indian media has reported that the Defence Ministry has moved an anti-drone missile system close to the Bangladesh border when, from the other side, Turkey-made deadly Bayraktar TB2 drones are lined up. These drones bought by Bangladesh earlier this year, have enhanced its ability to conduct surveillance and light strike operations. According to Defence Technology of Bangladesh (DTB), 6 of the 12 drones ordered have been operationalized.
Tension is rising among the Islamists in Bangladesh. Hindu minority concentration areas have become the targets for bloodshed, rape and arson. Massive anti-India and anti-Hindu rallies are brought out in which Islamist firebrands demand not only the capture of Kolkata in a matter of few hours but also lay their claim to Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.
The Indian Defence Ministry is reported to have deployed about 7-8 thousand troops along the border to counter any mischief by Bangladesh warmongers.
Some irritable and sensitive groups on our side are reacting stoutly to the hate campaign of the radical regime in Bangladesh. This is a process of angry and emotional expression of pent-up hatred and xenophobia which will not help any side.
Bengali Muslims, like all Muslims in the sub-continent, are a portion of humanity with a split personality. Before the advent of Islam in around 640 CE, today’s Islamic communities were part of great civilizations like the Aryan, Zoroastrian, Mazdayen, Zionist, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and other faiths and their denominations. These had split into sub-groups adding some new complexion to the faith and eschewing others.
They surrendered or were made to surrender to Islamic universalism. Genetic conversion all over this vast swath of Asian land somehow remained elusive. It raises its head intermittently at some of the vulnerable spots and destinations, firstly due to a split personality and secondly under local compulsions.
Bangladesh, like Pakistan or Iran, is in the throes of fierce inter-factional feuds, be it the Sunni-Shia divide, divide along the four schools of Islamic Sufism, divide along ideological allegiances in which conservatism is pitted against modernity or where Islamic sharia is pitted against Westminster-like democracy.
In Bangladesh, the explosion of ideological bombshell after it had been simmering for years, the Jama’at-i-Islami radicals made the unarmed, peaceful and docile Hindu minority as sitting ducks to be shot at and their civilisational symbols to be destroyed. There is ditto replication of what was undertaken in Kashmir in 1989 – 90.
The reaction of Bangladeshi Hindus discernible in a nearly one crore strong multitude cannot create an impression nor invite reaction by the world community because they are fighting an authority which is determined to shed any and everyman’s blood who opposes theocratic supremacy.
What is happening in Bangladesh is another glaring example of war by proxy. It is Washington chastising India through a proxy. It is to disallow India the freedom of policy framing and action shown by a strongly nationalist leader. The blow has come because India looks to her interests and not to the interests of the White House or 10 Downing Street. Those places are adept at moving their hand behind the curtain. But now things are different. Even their Indian proxies have not been able to make an impression.
While China is mute and watching what is happening inside its southern neighbour, Pakistan has jumped into the fray. It has, for the first time in forty years, sent a ship with war material to Yunus’ regime. The ship will not have to pass through the normal inspection or submission of maritime documentation. The two countries have done away with visa mechanisms for exchange travelling, and Islamabad is happy Bangladesh withdrew its diplomatic staff from Kolkata and New Delhi. Once arch-enemies have now become “iron friends.” For the two, India is the enemy and Hinduism is the anti-missile shield that has to be broken. To the zealots in Dhaka and Islamabad, the path of destruction of the “Hindu State” lies in first eliminating the RSS and BJP-led Government in New Delhi.
Fortunate for them and unfortunate for the Indian nation, the proxies are home-bred and fiercely dedicated to their initial “tukde tukde aspiration.”
The Democrat caucus had taken their Bangladeshi proxy under its wings many years ago. However, the time for activating the proxy came to a head for two reasons. One was India not distancing from Russia and the second was Sheikh Hasina, the exiled Prime Minister refusing the “white man” air base as a foothold in St Martin Island.
The American deep state is carefully watching the course of events and will not turn down its vigil from how India reacts to their perfidy. In all probability, Pakistan has silently agreed to provide the dirty bomb to Bangladesh along with a delivery system. She will not take this initiative because there is no first-strike treaty with India. But Bangladesh’s rogue regime is not bound by any treaty, any law, any political and diplomatic propriety or any human consideration.
It is not only Bangladesh that aspires to borrow nuclear strike capability. Iran is also pursuing the same course. Both Bangladesh and Iran remind Islamabad that Pakistan has always claimed that she has an Islamic bomb. When will she make use of it if not now against India, a fast-rising economic and military power in Asia? Turkey plays the second fiddle to them.
Curiously China is tight-lipped so far lending some credence to the Sino-American nexus to scuttle India’s aspirations of becoming the top Asian power. If the devious scheming succeeds India is dragged to call its land forces for redeployment on the Bangladesh border, it will mean the beginning of the end.
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