Sheikh Hasina’s Son Slams Bangladesh Extradition Bid, Warns India Of Terror Threat | World News
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has launched a scathing attack on Dhaka’s extradition request while warning India about the growing terror threat from Bangladesh.
Speaking to ANI from Virginia, Wazed dismissed the cases filed against his mother as fundamentally flawed and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting her asylum.
Explaining why his mother fled to India in August 2024, Wazed said, “India actually saved my mother’s life. If she had not left Bangladesh, the militants had planned to kill her.”
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Calls Due Process a Farce
Wazed blasted Bangladesh’s extradition request, saying the entire judicial system was rigged against his mother. “They fired 17 judges before the trial, illegally changed laws without parliamentary approval, and barred defense lawyers from court proceedings,” he said. “No country will extradite in the absence of due process of any kind.”
He is confident that Indian authorities will reject this request because Dhaka does not comply with basic legal norms. Sheikh Hasina faces various accusations over her 15 years in power, but Wazed insists the interim government has eliminated any semblance of a fair trial.
Allegations That Terrorists Are Free
What will attract attention in New Delhi will be Wazed’s allegations regarding terrorism. He claims that Yunus’s government has released “tens of thousands of terrorists” that his mother’s administration had imprisoned. More worryingly, he says Lashkar-e-Taiba is now openly operating in Bangladesh and has links to the recent terror attacks in Delhi.
“I think Prime Minister Modi is probably very, very concerned about terrorism coming from Bangladesh,” he said, drawing a direct line between the political chaos in Dhaka and India’s security concerns.
Wazed went further, pointing fingers at Pakistan’s ISI for arming militants who infiltrated last year’s protests. Claiming that there was video evidence of gunmen among the demonstrators, he said, “Without a doubt, these weapons must have been procured from somewhere in the continent and the only possible source is the ISI.”
Targets Yunus Government
Wazed painted a bleak picture of life under the interim rule of Mohammed Younis, saying “tens of thousands of political prisoners” were sitting in prisons without trial. “There is an unelected government that has been in power for over a year and a half. Everything has been done in an undemocratic way,” he said.
He questioned why Yunus hasn’t called elections if he really has public support, pointing to polls that show the student movement’s political party has barely two percent backing.
Wazed could not completely escape accusations of corruption against his mother’s government. “Of course there was corruption in Bangladesh,” he admitted, but argued that the country had gone from being the most corrupt country in the world to outside the top 10 under Sheikh Hasina’s watch.
Bangladesh’s interim government has not responded to any of Wazed’s allegations.
