A youth wing leader from Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), on Tuesday issued a warning to India in remarks linked to Bangladesh, claiming Pakistan would respond if Bangladesh’s sovereignty were threatened.
Kamran Saeed Usmani, a PML youth leader, said that Pakistan’s armed forces and missile capabilities would come into play in the event of what he described as an attack on Bangladesh. His comments were made in video statements circulated online.
“If India attacks Bangladesh’s autonomy or harbours ill intent, Pakistan’s people, armed forces and missiles are not far away,” Usmani said.
Usmani also accused India of attempting to impose what he termed an “Akhand Bharat ideology” on Bangladesh, a claim that India has consistently rejected in similar instances. He said Pakistan would not accept Bangladesh being pushed into what he described as India’s ideological dominance.
In his remarks, Usmani claimed that Pakistan had previously put India under pressure and could do so again if required. He also outlined a hypothetical regional scenario involving Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, though no official Pakistani or Bangladeshi authority has endorsed such statements.
In a separate video, Usmani went further by calling for a formal military alliance between Pakistan and Bangladesh. He alleged that Bangladesh was being “disturbed” by India’s Border Security Force and repeated accusations that India was seeking to undermine Bangladesh’s sovereignty.
Usmani proposed that Pakistan and Bangladesh allow each other to establish military bases on their territories, arguing that such cooperation would enhance strategic reach and potentially link the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with Bangladesh’s ports.
There has been no official response from the governments of India, Pakistan or Bangladesh to Usmani’s remarks, which appear to reflect individual political rhetoric rather than stated government policy.
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