“If India attacks Pakistan, Bangladesh should occupy…”: Controversial remarks of Yunus' aides amid tensions in Pahargam | World News
Shockingly, a former Bangladesh Army officer and chief adviser Muhammad Yunus said on Thursday that Dhaka should work with China to occupy India's northeastern state if New Delhi attacks Pakistan in retaliation for terrorist attacks to investigate the investigation and Pahalgam in Kashmir, and claimed at least 26 people, once 26 people, once 26 people, and the largest number of tourists.
Yunus' interim government was out of reach with Major General Retd Alm Fazlur Rahman on his Facebook account on Friday. “If India attacks Pakistan, Bangladesh should occupy seven states in northeastern India,” Rahman wrote in a Bangladesh article on his social media account. “I think it is necessary to start a discussion with China on the joint military arrangements in this regard.”
Yunus was appointed chairman of the National Independence Commission by the interim government led by Yunus in December 2024, which was designated to investigate the killings of the 2009 Bangladesh Rifle Uprising.
“These comments do not reflect the position or policy of the Bangladesh government, and therefore the government neither acknowledges nor supports such remarks in any form or manner,” the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a media outlet on Friday. In early March, Yunus urged Beijing to expand part of Bangladesh's ocean-facing part to the Chinese economy.
In a video circulating on social media, Yunus urged the Chinese government to build its economic base in the country, while saying Dhaka is the only marine guardian in the region.
“The seven states of India, known as the seven sisters in the east, are landlocked countries. They have no access to the ocean. We are the only marine guardians in the region. This provides huge possibilities for the extension of China's economy. This could be an extension of China's economy – to establish, produce and market, bring them back to China and export them all over the world.”
In New Delhi, these comments did not go well and caused a sharp reaction from Indian political leaders on cross-party lines.
Days after Yunus' controversial comments, India withdrew its transshipment facilities in April that it had granted Bangladesh to export goods to other countries outside the Middle East, Europe and Nepal and Bhutan.
