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Sadeq Khan
Sustained orchestra-tion of a “conspiracy theory” involving covert US “operation” to oust Sheikh Hasina from power in Bangladesh, ascribing the Indian Security State as the source of information, is being circulated in Bangladesh media by an on-line news agency. On September 3, the “India correspondent” of bdnews24.com reported on-line in unambiguous terms that Indian intelligence had unearthed a ‘major US operation to oust Hasina’.
The report published in most Bangladesh dailies, and picked up in the vernacular media of West Bengal, Assam and Tripura States of India, read: “Indian intelligence officials say they have unravelled a US-funded move to topple Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh and ‘weaken’ the Left regime in Tripura. West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress, which is said to have been hugely funded by the US in its oust-Left drive in West Bengal between 2009-2011, has transferred millions of dollars to its fundamentalist associates in Bangladesh, they claim.
A central intelligence report (of the Government of India) accessed by a bdnews24.com correspondent in India says Trinamool MP in Rajya Sabha Ahmed Hassan Imran and another Maulana Asif Khan (originally from Teknaf) have been sending huge amounts of money to the Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP over the past six months. The BNP and Jamaat leaders have been meting out threats and pushing for a fresh election, almost in tandem with the US. Pakistani agencies are also involved.
US-Jamaat/BNP conspiring?
“Ahmed Hassan Imran, who was nominated to Rajya Sabha by none other than Mamata Banerjee, was actually a senior office bearer of the now-banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). It (the Indian intelligence report) provides details of its (SIMI’s) links with Muslim terror outfits and how he has been moving funds across the border. Imran was a correspondent of the Jamaat’s mouthpiece Naya Diganta and enjoys close personal relations with leaders like Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Mir Quasem Ali, all of whom are up in the dock on the war crimes trials. Pakistan is strongly lobbying with other powerful Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia to force the Bangladesh government to stop the war crimes trials.
“US is backing the Jamaat-BNP combine because it has been promised a base in the Bay of Bengal in case they come to power. The (Indian) intelligence report says that the US is not only keen to bring down Sheikh Hasina government but also cripple the Left regime in Tripura with the ultimate purpose of ousting it in an operation akin to West Bengal in 2011.”
West Bengal and Assam newspapers followed up the story with Modi government in Delhi, and obtained partial confirmation from Rajnath Singh, the Indian Home Minister that Imran’s alleged funding of Islamists in Bangladesh and India, and the so-called “Saradha scam” connections as well as Mamata’s “chit fund” exposures were under investigation by relevant agencies.
Now the “New Delhi correspondent” of bdnews24.com has again reported, ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “arrival” in New York to present new India to the 69th UN General Assembly, on “details” of the conspiracy to oust Sheikh Hasina. The report, issued on-line after midday on 23 September and updated the same evening, reads: “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ask ‘sister’ Sheikh Hasina to be alert to threats she faces, when they meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month.
Indian intelligence’s conspiracy phobia
Indian intelligence says it has already secured details on attempts by a Western intelligence agency to ‘destabilise’ Bangladesh by using elements of the army to bring down the elected government. Senior intelligence officials here (New Delhi) told bdnews24.com on condition of anonymity that this western intelligence agency is cultivating some elements in the top echelon of Bangladesh army and plans to create a government of ‘national consensus’ after toppling Hasina. A senior defence intelligence official (of USA) operating in Dhaka under diplomatic cover is said to be the mastermind of these covert operations.
“The government of ‘national consensus’ planned by this agency intends to bring together some Awami League renegades, the BNP and other parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Jatiya Party on the same platform to provide the country with a government of national consensus. Some army officials opposed to such machinations have already been sidelined to irrelevant positions, and efforts are also on to neutralise the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), so that there is no armed resistance to a military takeover to install the so-called national unity government. Narendra Modi has been briefed about ‘specific inputs’ received by Indian intelligence. Much of that has also been communicated to senior Bangladesh officials who visited Delhi as part of the delegation headed by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
“This (Western Intelligence) agency first got the Left (government of CPM) out of power in West Bengal and now they want Hasina out. They want a base in Bay of Bengal and that is not possible with Hasina in power or the Left in some kind of position to influence Indian government.”
Quoting a top official of the Indian Prime Minister’s office, the bdnews24.com report went on: “PM Modi will raise this issue when he meets Hasina. He will assure her of firm action on the Saradha issue and tell her Indians responsible for conspiring against her government will be severely dealt with. He will also seek Bangladesh’s inputs on the Saradha illicit fund movements for facilitating the enquiry now being done by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).”
Delhi cool to conspiracy?
The US Embassy in Dhaka had earlier promptly denied the “intelligence leak” disinformation by the India Correspondent of bdnews24.com on September 3. The US Embassy spokesperson in her rejoinder had said that there was “absolutely no truth” to that story: “As you know, the United States and Bangladesh enjoy a strong friendship and close cooperation on a wide range of issues including countering violent extremism, building our trade relationship while improving worker safety, and enhancing regional economic engagement.
“Just this week, the United States was proud to announce that we officially offered the United States Coast Guard Ship (USCGS) Rush to Bangladesh on Aug. 8. The Rush will complement the Somudra Joy, which was transferred to the Bangladesh Navy last year…We look forward to further broadening and deepening our bilateral relations at our annual Partnership Dialogue, scheduled for October in Washington, DC.”
The Indian Security State officially neither confirmed nor denied this report. However, the government of India did take official cognizance of the contents of the report, as the Indian Home Minister publicly acknowledged that an investigation was on about alleged “terror-funding” by Indian parliament’s Upper House Member, Ahmed Hasan Imran in India and Bangladesh. He added, however, that the political leadership of India will not get involved in the matter and law will take its own course.
Indeed there is no hint in the public domain from the new political leadership in India that they may have any misgiving about US role in South Asia or about Indo-US strategic cooperation in the region. On the contrary, it is with equal enthusiasm that Delhi has prepared for Modi’s Washington visit, as the white House has set the stage “Modi arrival” in America. The Indian Diaspora has arranged for a grand public reception for Modi in Madison Square Garden, New York (two blocks away from Times Square), preparing an unprecedented spectacle welcoming a foreign visitor that all New Yorkers around could observe.
Modi busy with 35 engagements
Modi and Obama would interact Sep 29 and 30 in Washington, which would also see the US president hosting a dinner in honour of the Indian prime minister, although Modi will be taking only lemon sherbet as he would be observing the nine-day Navratri fast during his trip.
Modi has a packed schedule of 35 engagements during his Sep 26-30 America visit. He would meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in New York. Modi would also meet the CEOs of Fortune 500 US companies, including Boeing, Pepsico, Google, General Electric and Goldman Sachs among others, and hold one-on-one meetings with some of them. Trade and investment, energy, science and technology, defence and security are expected to be the areas of focus during the talks with Obama. While in Washington, Modi would also meet Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner among others.
In New York, Modi will pay homage at the 9/11 memorial and meet 300 members of the Indian American business community. He would have his time full with scheduled and unscheduled interactions with US political leaders, the administration, the business community, civil society, with the US states and cities, and the “vibrant Indian Diaspora.”
His three bilateral meetings with neighbours - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - on the sidelines of the UNGA would hardly find him in confidante mood, nor would it be the proper place or situation for a regional power to “warn” SAARC colleague about suspected superpower indiscretion on the strength of a “leaked” conspiracy theory.
Projections of Indian dreams
Some analysts suggest that the new political leadership in Delhi is too busy at this stage with projection of Indian dreams in the global arena to spare much time for detailing out its South Asian agenda. Modi’s visit to the US caps a month of fast paced, high level diplomatic events that saw Modi interact with leaders of Japan, Australia and ChinaJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Chinese President Xi Jinping and also the inking of major agreements with the three countries.
As such, beyond promises of “harmonising” India’s relations with its close neighbours, the ruling party in India appears not to have as yet made up its mind about how to use its hegemonic power in its neighbourhood. The Indian Security State is possibly meanwhile carrying on with its “old” psy-war strategy, sometimes perhaps at odds, with the new political leadership, as seen in the September 3 “intelligences leak” wherein the “national spokesmen” of the BJP “privately” visiting Bangladesh was hit below the belt with “character assassination” by the “intelligence source” of the report.
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More load of Horse shit propaganda from the vermins running South Block. Though i don't agree with the author that this propaganda psy-war by RAW is at odds with the BJP gov. The BJP and butcher Modi has no reason to not continue Congress's policy of unconditional backing of a subservient hasina regime in BD. I don't understand why some BD analyst think the BJP will have a different policy regarding BD even though the opposite is becoming clear as day , by these horse shit propaganda by RAW. The Indian ruling party have complete domination of state institutes and regarding foreign policy both BJP & congress have similar views. Their methods may slightly differ, but the end goal is the same.
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Sadeq Khan
Sustained orchestra-tion of a “conspiracy theory” involving covert US “operation” to oust Sheikh Hasina from power in Bangladesh, ascribing the Indian Security State as the source of information, is being circulated in Bangladesh media by an on-line news agency. On September 3, the “India correspondent” of bdnews24.com reported on-line in unambiguous terms that Indian intelligence had unearthed a ‘major US operation to oust Hasina’.
The report published in most Bangladesh dailies, and picked up in the vernacular media of West Bengal, Assam and Tripura States of India, read: “Indian intelligence officials say they have unravelled a US-funded move to topple Sheikh Hasina’s government in Bangladesh and ‘weaken’ the Left regime in Tripura. West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress, which is said to have been hugely funded by the US in its oust-Left drive in West Bengal between 2009-2011, has transferred millions of dollars to its fundamentalist associates in Bangladesh, they claim.
A central intelligence report (of the Government of India) accessed by a bdnews24.com correspondent in India says Trinamool MP in Rajya Sabha Ahmed Hassan Imran and another Maulana Asif Khan (originally from Teknaf) have been sending huge amounts of money to the Jamaat-e-Islami and BNP over the past six months. The BNP and Jamaat leaders have been meting out threats and pushing for a fresh election, almost in tandem with the US. Pakistani agencies are also involved.
US-Jamaat/BNP conspiring?
“Ahmed Hassan Imran, who was nominated to Rajya Sabha by none other than Mamata Banerjee, was actually a senior office bearer of the now-banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). It (the Indian intelligence report) provides details of its (SIMI’s) links with Muslim terror outfits and how he has been moving funds across the border. Imran was a correspondent of the Jamaat’s mouthpiece Naya Diganta and enjoys close personal relations with leaders like Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Mir Quasem Ali, all of whom are up in the dock on the war crimes trials. Pakistan is strongly lobbying with other powerful Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia to force the Bangladesh government to stop the war crimes trials.
“US is backing the Jamaat-BNP combine because it has been promised a base in the Bay of Bengal in case they come to power. The (Indian) intelligence report says that the US is not only keen to bring down Sheikh Hasina government but also cripple the Left regime in Tripura with the ultimate purpose of ousting it in an operation akin to West Bengal in 2011.”
West Bengal and Assam newspapers followed up the story with Modi government in Delhi, and obtained partial confirmation from Rajnath Singh, the Indian Home Minister that Imran’s alleged funding of Islamists in Bangladesh and India, and the so-called “Saradha scam” connections as well as Mamata’s “chit fund” exposures were under investigation by relevant agencies.
Now the “New Delhi correspondent” of bdnews24.com has again reported, ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “arrival” in New York to present new India to the 69th UN General Assembly, on “details” of the conspiracy to oust Sheikh Hasina. The report, issued on-line after midday on 23 September and updated the same evening, reads: “Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ask ‘sister’ Sheikh Hasina to be alert to threats she faces, when they meet in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly later this month.
Indian intelligence’s conspiracy phobia
Indian intelligence says it has already secured details on attempts by a Western intelligence agency to ‘destabilise’ Bangladesh by using elements of the army to bring down the elected government. Senior intelligence officials here (New Delhi) told bdnews24.com on condition of anonymity that this western intelligence agency is cultivating some elements in the top echelon of Bangladesh army and plans to create a government of ‘national consensus’ after toppling Hasina. A senior defence intelligence official (of USA) operating in Dhaka under diplomatic cover is said to be the mastermind of these covert operations.
“The government of ‘national consensus’ planned by this agency intends to bring together some Awami League renegades, the BNP and other parties like the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Jatiya Party on the same platform to provide the country with a government of national consensus. Some army officials opposed to such machinations have already been sidelined to irrelevant positions, and efforts are also on to neutralise the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), so that there is no armed resistance to a military takeover to install the so-called national unity government. Narendra Modi has been briefed about ‘specific inputs’ received by Indian intelligence. Much of that has also been communicated to senior Bangladesh officials who visited Delhi as part of the delegation headed by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali.
“This (Western Intelligence) agency first got the Left (government of CPM) out of power in West Bengal and now they want Hasina out. They want a base in Bay of Bengal and that is not possible with Hasina in power or the Left in some kind of position to influence Indian government.”
Quoting a top official of the Indian Prime Minister’s office, the bdnews24.com report went on: “PM Modi will raise this issue when he meets Hasina. He will assure her of firm action on the Saradha issue and tell her Indians responsible for conspiring against her government will be severely dealt with. He will also seek Bangladesh’s inputs on the Saradha illicit fund movements for facilitating the enquiry now being done by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).”
Delhi cool to conspiracy?
The US Embassy in Dhaka had earlier promptly denied the “intelligence leak” disinformation by the India Correspondent of bdnews24.com on September 3. The US Embassy spokesperson in her rejoinder had said that there was “absolutely no truth” to that story: “As you know, the United States and Bangladesh enjoy a strong friendship and close cooperation on a wide range of issues including countering violent extremism, building our trade relationship while improving worker safety, and enhancing regional economic engagement.
“Just this week, the United States was proud to announce that we officially offered the United States Coast Guard Ship (USCGS) Rush to Bangladesh on Aug. 8. The Rush will complement the Somudra Joy, which was transferred to the Bangladesh Navy last year…We look forward to further broadening and deepening our bilateral relations at our annual Partnership Dialogue, scheduled for October in Washington, DC.”
The Indian Security State officially neither confirmed nor denied this report. However, the government of India did take official cognizance of the contents of the report, as the Indian Home Minister publicly acknowledged that an investigation was on about alleged “terror-funding” by Indian parliament’s Upper House Member, Ahmed Hasan Imran in India and Bangladesh. He added, however, that the political leadership of India will not get involved in the matter and law will take its own course.
Indeed there is no hint in the public domain from the new political leadership in India that they may have any misgiving about US role in South Asia or about Indo-US strategic cooperation in the region. On the contrary, it is with equal enthusiasm that Delhi has prepared for Modi’s Washington visit, as the white House has set the stage “Modi arrival” in America. The Indian Diaspora has arranged for a grand public reception for Modi in Madison Square Garden, New York (two blocks away from Times Square), preparing an unprecedented spectacle welcoming a foreign visitor that all New Yorkers around could observe.
Modi busy with 35 engagements
Modi and Obama would interact Sep 29 and 30 in Washington, which would also see the US president hosting a dinner in honour of the Indian prime minister, although Modi will be taking only lemon sherbet as he would be observing the nine-day Navratri fast during his trip.
Modi has a packed schedule of 35 engagements during his Sep 26-30 America visit. He would meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, former US president Bill Clinton and his wife former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in New York. Modi would also meet the CEOs of Fortune 500 US companies, including Boeing, Pepsico, Google, General Electric and Goldman Sachs among others, and hold one-on-one meetings with some of them. Trade and investment, energy, science and technology, defence and security are expected to be the areas of focus during the talks with Obama. While in Washington, Modi would also meet Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner among others.
In New York, Modi will pay homage at the 9/11 memorial and meet 300 members of the Indian American business community. He would have his time full with scheduled and unscheduled interactions with US political leaders, the administration, the business community, civil society, with the US states and cities, and the “vibrant Indian Diaspora.”
His three bilateral meetings with neighbours - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina - on the sidelines of the UNGA would hardly find him in confidante mood, nor would it be the proper place or situation for a regional power to “warn” SAARC colleague about suspected superpower indiscretion on the strength of a “leaked” conspiracy theory.
Projections of Indian dreams
Some analysts suggest that the new political leadership in Delhi is too busy at this stage with projection of Indian dreams in the global arena to spare much time for detailing out its South Asian agenda. Modi’s visit to the US caps a month of fast paced, high level diplomatic events that saw Modi interact with leaders of Japan, Australia and ChinaJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Chinese President Xi Jinping and also the inking of major agreements with the three countries.
As such, beyond promises of “harmonising” India’s relations with its close neighbours, the ruling party in India appears not to have as yet made up its mind about how to use its hegemonic power in its neighbourhood. The Indian Security State is possibly meanwhile carrying on with its “old” psy-war strategy, sometimes perhaps at odds, with the new political leadership, as seen in the September 3 “intelligences leak” wherein the “national spokesmen” of the BJP “privately” visiting Bangladesh was hit below the belt with “character assassination” by the “intelligence source” of the report.
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More load of Horse shit propaganda from the vermins running South Block. Though i don't agree with the author that this propaganda psy-war by RAW is at odds with the BJP gov. The BJP and butcher Modi has no reason to not continue Congress's policy of unconditional backing of a subservient hasina regime in BD. I don't understand why some BD analyst think the BJP will have a different policy regarding BD even though the opposite is becoming clear as day , by these horse shit propaganda by RAW. The Indian ruling party have complete domination of state institutes and regarding foreign policy both BJP & congress have similar views. Their methods may slightly differ, but the end goal is the same.
@Loki @monitor @[URL='https://defence.pk/members/khair_ctg.146777/']khair_ctg @@kalu_miah @kobiraaz @extra terrestrial @Bilal9 @aazidane @Saiful Islam @asad71 @idune @MBI Munshi @iajdani @Skallagrim @UKBengali
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