Analysis of Pakistan’s ‘Islamic Army’ in Bangladesh

Intelligence reports have revealed that the Yunus government in Bangladesh has established an Islamic army. It is noteworthy that Bangladesh received support from Pakistan in this effort. The question arises: What is the purpose of creating a new Islamic army when Bangladesh already has an army? What is Pakistan’s role in this? So how serious a threat does this pose to India?

The full name of the Islamic army that the Yunus government is developing is the Islamic Revolutionary Army (IRA). Reports indicate that the first phase of the IRA’s establishment is currently underway. Seven different camps are being run in Bangladesh, where 10,000 radicals are trained for recruitment. The way the Yunus government established the Islamic army shows that it is following the path of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei.

What is this Islamic army in Bangladesh and what role does Pakistan play in its formation?

The army Yunus built is not an ordinary soldier, but a hybrid ideology in which each soldier is half soldier and half jihadist. The Islamic Revolutionary Army will be more loyal to the current government than to the country. Muhammad Yunus entrusted the responsibility of preparing this jihadist army to Pakistan’s Munir Army, which we call the terrorist army.

IRA training centers are run by former officers of the Pakistan Army and ISI. The funding and weapons for these training centers come from Pakistan. Although Pakistan lacks the funds to feed its citizens, it provides both funds and weapons to Bangladesh to establish an Islamic army.

Bangladesh’s Islamic Revolutionary Army is modeled on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Yunus wants to create a radical army modeled on the Revolutionary Guard that will help establish Bangladesh as an Islamic state. For this reason, it is said that Yunus is on his way to becoming Caliph like Khamenei.

The Revolutionary Guard was born after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Similarly, following the overthrow of Sheikh Hasina, Muhammad Yunus began preparations to establish the IRA as soon as he came to power. This means that the ‘Islamic Revolutionary Army’ has been called a copy of the Revolutionary Guard.

Yunus’s Islamic Army could be dangerous for India as well as for the whole of South Asia, because the Revolutionary Guards, the model on which the Bangladesh Islamic Army was prepared, gave birth to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas and today rules the ‘Axis of Resistance’ in the Middle East. Therefore, it is of great importance that Yunus’s jihadist plan is foiled as soon as possible.