Bangladesh's DGFI on a secret mission to Pakistan to meet ISI to formulate strategy to counter India

Bangladesh's military intelligence agency Director General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) under the current interim regime in Dhaka is seeking to strengthen its ties with Pakistan’s ISI to counter India across the South Asian region.

A delegation from the DGFI is currently visiting Pakistan, though no official orders have been issued for the trip, ET has reliably learnt.

Upon arrival at a Pakistani airport, they reportedly received new passports containing fresh identities and separate personal information, according to persons familiar with the matter.


Notably, no immigration procedures were conducted either at Dhaka when the team was leaving or upon their arrival in Pakistan, according to one of persons quoted above.

The DGFI delegation is participating in a closed door meet focused on exchanging strategies to counter India, a source alleged.

It may be recalled that ISI has sought to regain its influence in Bangladesh within months of PM Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.

Establishing ISI presence in strategic areas of Bangladesh in what would revive Pakistan Army's presence in the same areas from the pre-1971 days figured high on the agenda when ISI top brass visited Dhaka this January.


ET had then reported that ISI is eyeing to establish its presence in Cox’s Bazar, Ukhia, Teknaf, Moulvibazar, Habiganj, and Sherpur areas of Bangladesh.

The visit by ISI’s top brass witnessed exploratory talks with the amenable section of Bangladesh Army on expanding ISI’s network along India’s Northeastern Eastern neighbourhood. The ISI is allegedly coordinating its moves with the pro-Islamist and pro-Jamaat faction of the Bangladesh Army. Visits to each other’s country by delegations from the Pakistan Army and Bangladesh Army have increased manifold over the past year.

Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syeed Abdullah Muhammad Taher accompanying Md Yunus on his visit to New York for UNGA session spew venom against India and threatened that Jamaat can invade India after being voted to power.

It has also been learnt that ISI with support of radical Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) is encouraging Islamist groups -- Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Harkat-ul-Jihad (HUJI), Ansar al-Bangla, and Hifazat-e-Islam to have wider say in the governance matters through

their sympathisers in the interim regime led by Md Yunus.