Bangladesh News and Discussion

[sanjaykumar]

Why permit them to get a response from you?

Someone who looks like an extra from Planet of the Apes now has the satisfaction of your ire? They aren’t even worthy of contempt.

[A_Gupta]

Last Friday at 2:24 pm, Sharif Osman bin Hadi, convener of Inqilab Moncho, was shot in the Box Culvert area of Old Paltan, Dhaka. A person riding a motorcycle, following from behind, fired at Hadi, who was in a battery-operated rickshaw.

SN Nazrul Islam stated that the “shooter” Faisal Karim Masud and the motorcycle rider Alamgir Sheikh have been identified.

In response to a journalist’s question, Nazrul Islam said that after checking the immigration database, there is no information so far indicating that they have fled the country. Faisal’s passport number has been obtained, and according to his most recent travel record, he apparently returned from Thailand last July. After that, there is no record of any departure in the immigration database.

India’s High Commissioner to Dhaka, Pranay Verma, has once again been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bangladesh has urged that if those, who attacked Sharif Osman Hadi, convener of Inqilab Moncho, enter India, they should be arrested and sent back.

According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pranay Verma was summoned on Sunday morning.

He was also informed of the interim government’s concerns over the continued provocative statements being made by deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has taken refuge in Delhi.

During the tenure of the interim government, this is at least the fifth time the ambassador of the neighbouring country has been summoned in connection with various incidents.

Press Release on India’s rejection of assertions made by the interim government of Bangladesh
December 14, 2025

India categorically rejects the assertions made by the interim Government of Bangladesh in its press note dated 14 December 2025.

2. We have consistently reiterated our position in favour of free, fair, inclusive and credible elections being held in Bangladesh in a peaceful atmosphere.

3. India has never allowed its territory to be used for activities inimical to the interests of the friendly people of Bangladesh.

4. We expect that the interim Government of Bangladesh will take all necessary measures for ensuring internal law and order, including for the purpose of holding peaceful elections.

New Delhi
December 14, 2025

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[A_Gupta]

An attempt to rewrite history in Bangladesh is under way, with e.g., CU pro-VC calls claim that Pakistani forces killed intellectuals baseless ( https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/lo ... zn4uo6w0yo ) { Mohammad Shamim Uddin Khan said, “Intellectuals were killed as part of a conspiracy to turn this country into a vassal state of another country through an international plot. } etc.

One more thing they're trying to say is that Ziaur Rahman's radio broadcast from Chittagong was the first declaration of independence; that Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was silent on the matter.

The proof against it is this declassified US Dept of State document:
https://history.state.gov/historicaldoc ... -76v11/d11
11. Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting1
Washington, March 26, 1971, 3:03–3:32 p.m.

Note that this would have been 2:03-2:32 AM, March 27, 1971 in Bangladesh.We are told that "Major Ziaur Rahman made his historic declaration of independence from Chittagong on the evening of March 27, 1971, at approximately 7:45 PM". So this WSAG meeting was held before Ziaur Rahman's broadcast.

Now to quote from the document, emphasis added:

Mr. Helms: [1 line of source text not declassified] the situation in the area of the Consulate General is very quiet but that an enormous fire has been going on for hours in the old part of the city. Very few shots or explosions have been heard. Only two of the Consulate personnel had been able to get to the Consulate building by 6:30 p.m.

[1 line of source text not declassified] Mujibur Rahman was taken into custody at 1:00 p.m. by the martial law authorities. Two of his supporters were killed when the arrest took place. [2 lines of source text not declassified]

[1½ lines of source text not declassified] They say that Yahyaʼs speech Friday2 night has to be heard to appreciate the venom in his voice as he described Mujibur Rahman. The fat is in the fire. Islamabad confirms that Mujibur Rahman was successfully arrested.

It is unclear what caused the collapse of the talks.

Dr. Kissinger: Yesterday it looked as though an agreement were in sight.

[Page 25]
Mr. Helms: Yes, an agreement appeared near on March 24. The breakdown may have been because of Mujibur Rahmanʼs insistence on the immediate lifting of martial law.

A clandestine radio broadcast has Mujibur Rahman declaring the independence of Bangla Desh. There are 20,000 loyal West Pakistani troops in East Pakistan. There are also 5,000 East Pakistani regulars and 13,000 East Pakistani paramilitary troops, but their loyalty is doubtful. We cannot confirm Indian press reports that a large number of Pakistani troops landed by ship. Six C–130s carrying troops were supposed to be going from Karachi to Dacca today. It will take them a long time, since they have to go via Ceylon.

There are 700 potential U.S. evacuees in Dacca and 60 or 70 in Chittagong. There has been no request for evacuation yet.

Bangladesh is headed into a deep Islamist nightmare, with the US and others seeming to pre-acknowledge a Jamaat victory in the upcoming elections. The minimum needed is to not let lies overwhelm the truth.

Just like Indians are coming to revisit and revile JLN, it is OK for Bangladeshis to do so with Sheikh Mujib, etc. However, that must be done while respecting the truth. Reassessment of history is very different from rewriting it.

[chetak]

Bangladesh: Humiliation, Carnage, Liberation, Chaos Hardcover – 18 December 2025

by Iqbal Chand Malhotra (Author), Subroto Chattopadhyay (Author)


The roots of the conflict between East and West Pakistan go back to the traumatic partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Pakistan was united by religion but divided by language and culture—fault lines that soon metastasized into repeated humiliations and injustices. As protests erupted, the Pakistan Army unleashed a brutal campaign to silence dissent: three million people were killed, over 200,000 women were subjected to sexual violence, and ten million refugees fled to India, all for demanding autonomy.

The silence of the international community was deafening. The US and China, openly tilting towards Pakistan, did nothing to halt the unfolding genocide. The subcontinent had become the epicentre of a superpower contest.

India stood isolated.

Impoverished and destabilized by left-wing insurgency yet morally steadfast, Indira Gandhi’s India—working in close coordination with Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladesh’s first PM, and the resolute Mukti Bahini—waged a covert struggle for nine months. This culminated in a swift thirteen-day military campaign that broke the Pakistan Army, resulted in the capture of 93,000 prisoners of war, and delivered Bangladesh in one of history’s fastest and most decisive liberations.

All arms of the Indian state and Bangladesh’s government-in-exile had worked in perfect unison to deliver a glorious victory, yet peace proved fragile. Chaos followed almost immediately after independence, and nearly all the central figures of the struggle were eventually assassinated in a spiral of senseless violence.

Half a century later, as the same hatreds of language, identity, and faith erupt again, the ghosts of 1971 return—not as memory, but as warning.

[chetak]

SHOCKING. Muhammad Yunus’s interim setup asks India to arrest radical Osman Hadi’s attackers

— Even as Dhaka Police admits there’s no evidence of their link with India.

Hadi, now in coma, had pushed a ‘Greater Bangladesh’ map grabbing Indian land. He was later shot down by 2 Unknown GUNMEN.

Why export blame for domestic collapse? Bangladesh faces political killings and law order chaos, yet Yunus looks ABROAD to mask his own failures



watch video here

https://x.com/i/status/2000506118301274233




Hadi had posted a map of ‘greater Bangladesh’ showing parts of eastern India.

Dhaka Police said "Both UNKNOWN MEN were wearing helmets and escaped within seconds after opening fire"

[A_Gupta]

A few posts up, I had posted about Osman Hadi’s murder, including “ SN Nazrul Islam stated that the “shooter” Faisal Karim Masud and the motorcycle rider Alamgir Sheikh have been identified”.

These are not “unknown gunmen” - the Indian YouTube/social media warriors who keep claiming so have lost my confidence.

[A_Gupta]

I also posted: “ In response to a journalist’s question, Nazrul Islam said that after checking the immigration database, there is no information so far indicating that they have fled the country. Faisal’s passport number has been obtained, and according to his most recent travel record, he apparently returned from Thailand last July. After that, there is no record of any departure in the immigration database.”

And

“ India’s High Commissioner to Dhaka, Pranay Verma, has once again been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bangladesh has urged that if those, who attacked Sharif Osman Hadi, convener of Inqilab Moncho, enter India, they should be arrested and sent back.”