India gets entangled in China-Nepal, there is friendship between Pakistan and Bangladesh

A few weeks ago, the meaning of the meeting between Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momin and Pakistani diplomat Imran Ahmad Siddiqui was being found that on Wednesday afternoon, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had a long conversation by calling Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary, Ehsanul Karim, has said that there was a fifteen-minute-long conversation between the two leaders.

Phone conversations between the leaders of two countries are not unheard of, and there have been earlier phone conversations between Imran Khan and Sheikh Hasina, but in the recent times there are reports in the Pakistani press that about 50 years ago, the then Eastern Both Bangladesh and Pakistan, which broke away from Pakistan and became an independent country, are trying to warm up in their cold relationship.

The press release issued from the Pakistani Prime Minister’s Office stated that in the conversation, Imran Khan “gave his views on the bad situation prevailing in India’s occupied Kashmir” along with Kovid-19 and floods in Bangladesh, and Sheikh Hasina Invited to come to Pakistan.

The recent meeting in the capital Dhaka and these phone calls are seen by some in India’s strategic and diplomatic circles as a knock of potential change on the eastern border of India.

Trying to paint religious

Pakistan is also trying to give credence to this effort to increase the close with Bangladesh by saying that ‘both religion and culture are one’.

The people of Bangladesh’s politics are considering this attempt of Pakistan as dangerous because it will strengthen the radical Islamic groups present there, who have always been anti-India.

The Pakistani High Commissioner has said in a recent statement that ‘we want a closer relationship with our brother Bangladesh in all areas. Our history, religion and culture are one ‘.

In 1971, East Pakistan – now Bangladesh, although the reasons for separation from the then West Pakistan, cultural diversity was a big reason and the relationship between the two countries has been cold in these almost 50 years.

Pakistan’s High Commissioner in Dhaka, Imran Ahmad Siddiqui, made this statement on Pakistan-Bangladesh relations after a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momin on 1 July.

The meeting between Imran Ahmed Siddiqui and Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momin comes at a time when India is busy dealing with China and Nepal on its northern and eastern front.

On this meeting on July 1, however, no official statement has come from the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry, and when asked about this by the BBC from the Ministry, it was described as just an ‘informal meeting’. But the Pakistani High Commissioner told the Turkish news agency Anadolu that ‘keeping in mind the further requirements, both sides agreed to promote bilateral relations’.

There has been no response from India on this entire matter. No response has been received so far to the messages sent by the BBC to the Ministry of External Affairs in this regard.

In the meantime, reports are being received in some places that India is going to make some changes in its embassy in Dhaka on high positions.

Pinak Ranjan Chakraborty, former Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and former High Commissioner of India to Dhaka, says, “There has always been a faction in Bangladesh that has been seeking closer relations with Pakistan and was not even in favor of a Pakistan-Bangladesh partition.”

Pakistan can help in Rohingya case?

In Dhaka too, there is talk of pushing forward efforts to improve relations with Pakistan through some commercial interests. However, no one is willing to talk openly in this regard.

It is being said that the section favoring better relations with Pakistan has somehow succeeded in persuading the people sitting on the high ranks of Bangladesh’s rule that Pakistan is important in solving the country’s Rohingya problem and their return to Myanmar. Can play a role.

There are about 1 million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh for the last several years, who are creating many other problems besides pressing the density of population on this small area.

Also, there are repeated concerns that if some of them get involved in some kind of extremist activities, what will be the result for Bangladesh?

A section of Bangladesh is in favor of sending them back to Myanmar, but Bangladesh has not been able to succeed so far in this matter.

Former BBC correspondent Subir Bhowmik, who understands Bangladesh politics closely, says that the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army’s close relationship with some Muslim countries and better relations of those countries with Pakistan may also be in Bangladesh’s eyes.

Imtiaz Ahmad, Professor of International Affairs at Dhaka University, says Bangladesh is not in any misconception about Pakistan’s relationship with Myanmar, yes ‘India favors Myanmar as the slayer instead of supporting Bangladesh in the entire Rohingya case’ Show There is disappointment about him here ‘.

Professor Imtiaz Ahmed says, “Bangladesh, which itself was a victim of genocide in the 1970s, will be wary of relations with Pakistan because it is not known right now What is the attitude of Pakistan on the massacre of Bengalis during that period. Yes, it is certain that Bangladesh no longer wants to keep all its chickens in one basket. “

Heartburn from india

In recent times, China has also got projects worth billions of dollars from Bangladesh and China has also increased the common trade between the two countries by releasing many goods from Bangladesh. Bangladesh is also a part of China’s belt and road program like Pakistan.

There is also a feeling in Bangladesh that the way it helped the neighboring country (India) in not giving shelter to many militant groups of Northeast India and handing them over to India, instead of sharing the water of thirty and other shared rivers in India We have not been able to reach agreement.

Subir Bhowmick says that apart from Muslims in India, citizenship amendment law (CAA) giving citizenship to other communities of some neighboring countries and some leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party in which they synonymous with illegal people living in India and Bangladeshi It is very angry in Bangladesh.

Professor Imtiaz Ahmad believes that this has left many people in Bangladesh away from India.

He adds, “It is a matter of India’s thinking that after all, why are the neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka all moving away from it and what should they do in this regard?” Pinak Ranjan Chakraborty says that Pakistan’s attempt to come close to Bangladesh is part of its policy of “harassing and besieging India” and should be taken seriously.