“Pakistan’s ISI expands presence in Bangladesh to monitor India’s eastern frontier”, The Pamphlet, November 01, 2025

“Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) is quietly rebuilding its presence in Bangladesh to keep a close watch on India’s eastern and northeastern states as well as the Bay of Bengal region. According to multiple sources, a recent visit by a high-level Pakistani military delegation to Dhaka included ISI officers with an agenda of deepening covert cooperation with Bangladeshi agencies.

That is different from the limited influence that ISI maintained in Bangladesh during the long tenure of Sheikh Hasina when Dhaka’s security policies strongly aligned with those of New Delhi.

The delegation, headed by General Shamsad Mirza, had a series of meetings with top officials from Bangladesh’s National Security Intelligence (NSI) and the DGFI. People who know the details of the discussions said that both sides explored the possibility of a joint intelligence-sharing mechanism. The proposed arrangement would focus on surveillance across India’s northeastern states and nearby maritime zones in the Bay of Bengal……..”

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