If India attacks Pak, Bangladesh must occupy NE states, says Yunus aide

A former Bangladesh army officer and close aide of Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has suggested that Dhaka should collaborate with China to occupy India’s northeastern states if it attacks Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.

Yunus’ interim government on Friday distanced itself from the remarks made by Major General (retd) ALM Fazlur Rahman on his social media account. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Rahman wrote in Bengali, “If India attacks Pakistan, Bangladesh should occupy the seven states of Northeastern India.”

Rahman was appointed in December 2024 as the chairman of the National Independent Commission assigned to investigate the killings in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt of 2009.