A senior youth leader from Pakistan’s ruling party has issued a sharp warning to India, invoking military retaliation if Bangladesh’s sovereignty is threatened.
Kamran Saeed Usmani, who heads the youth wing of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League, said in a video message that any move by New Delhi against Dhaka would provoke a response from Islamabad. “If India attacks Bangladesh’s autonomy, if anyone dares to cast an evil eye towards Bangladesh, then remember that the people of Pakistan, the Pakistani armed forces, and our missiles are not far away,” he said.
Usmani claimed that Muslim youth have become alert to what he described as India’s designs in the region. He alleged that these “conspiracies” take multiple forms, “Whether it is in the form of cutting off the waters of Bangladesh, whether it is in the form of sedition, whether it is in the form of making a Muslim fight against a Muslim.”
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