{"id":170396,"date":"2025-03-07T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=170396"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T06:14:25","slug":"pak-bangladesh-ties-deliberately-strained-by-external-forces-particularly-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/07\/pak-bangladesh-ties-deliberately-strained-by-external-forces-particularly-india.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pak-Bangladesh ties deliberately strained by external forces, particularly India&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170397\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/images-36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/>Islamabad: Pakistan and Bangladesh share deep historical, cultural, and religious ties that were deliberately strained by external forces, particularly India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, India\u2019s 1971 intervention was a calculated geo-political move, orchestrated through Indian spy agency, RAW, to dismantle Pakistan\u2014not just a military action.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Mujibur Rahman initially sought autonomy, not separation, but India manipulated the movement to serve its own strategic interests.<\/p>\n<p>Mukti Bahini, trained and armed by India with direct RAW involvement, played a key role in the conflict\u2014something Indian officials later admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Mujibur Rahman\u2019s assassination in 1975 marked Bangladesh\u2019s shift away from Indian influence, which was later restored under Hasina Wajid.<\/p>\n<p>Hasina Wajid\u2019s government has enabled excessive Indian interference, from economic control to border security, undermining Bangladesh\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s dominance over Bangladesh\u2019s water resources, including the Farakka Barrage, has caused severe environmental and agricultural crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi public sentiment is increasingly anti-India, with over 60 percent opposing Indian influence in their internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh\u2019s growing ties with China and Turkey, along with its military diversifying defense partnerships, are reducing Indian dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite India\u2019s efforts to prevent it, Pakistan and Bangladesh are gradually reconnecting through trade and diplomacy, rekindling their brotherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan and Bangladesh share deep historical, cultural, and religious ties that were deliberately strained by external forces, particularly India. According to Kashmir Media Service, India\u2019s 1971 intervention was a calculated geo-political move, orchestrated through Indian spy agency, RAW, to dismantle Pakistan\u2014not just a military action. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman initially sought autonomy, not separation, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/images-36.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170398,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170396\/revisions\/170398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}