Bangladesh's interim head Muhammad Yunus is “cultivating a cozy relationship with Pakistan”, said author and geostrategist Brahma Chellaney, who called it a significant shift in regional geopolitics. He referred to Yunus’ meeting with Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee chairperson General Sahir Shamshad Mirza during which the former presented him with a book that had a distorted map of Bangladesh, showing parts of Northeast India within its limits. Advertisement

Chellaney said Yunus is not only pandering to Islamists at home but also stoking an anti-India sentiment.

“In a significant shift in regional geopolitics, Bangladesh under Muhammad Yunus is cultivating a cozy relationship with Pakistan – the very country from which it seceded in 1971 after a bloody war of liberation. Yun

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