“Pakistan’s political machinations and resurgence of Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh ahead of 2024 polls”, First Post, October 18, 2023:

“Bangladesh is readying for the general elections, tentatively scheduled for January 2024. This has seen political parties initiate their mass contact programmes in the form of rallies, and protest movements, especially led by the Opposition.

The Opposition parties led by Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami are raising questions on the transparency of the forthcoming elections, which could be seen as a precursor to their habitual resort to street violence in case of their usual below par electoral performance.

What is more prominent is how the Islamist forces led by Jamaat-e-Islami have started mobilising through extended patronage of Pakistan, per se, its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

While Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have seen the light of late, the same has not graduated to any significant level as Bangladeshi citizens still await an official apology from Islamabad for the genocidal crimes of its army……”

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