Big worry for India as Bangladesh brings Pakistan Army to strategic ‘Chicken’s Neck’ corridor in West Bengal to…

Last Updated on January 24, 2025 6:20 am

In another controversial step that could further impact the deteriorating India-Bangladesh relations, a delegation of senior officials of the Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) recently visited Rangpur Division in northern Bangladesh, which is located near the strategic ‘Chicken’s Neck’, aka the Siliguri Corridor.

India-Bangladesh relations: Bangladesh, which adopted a confrontational stance towards India since the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year, has recently taken another controversial step in that direction which could further impact the deteriorating India-Bangladesh relations.

According to reports, a delegation of senior officials of the Pakistan Army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)– Islamabad’s infamous spy agency–  recently visited Rangpur Division in northern Bangladesh, which is located near the strategic ‘Chicken’s Neck’, also known as the Siliguri Corridor, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal, that connects the India’s northeastern states to the rest of the country.

Reports citing sources in Dhaka said a four-member team of senior officials from the Pakistani Army and the ISI, arrived on a secret visit to Rangpur on January 21, following an invitation by Bangladesh Army’s principal staff officer (PSO) of Armed Forces Division, Lieutenant General SM Kamrul Hassan, who visited Islamabad last week.

The senior Bangladesh Army officer had extended an invite to his Pakistani counterparts to visit Bangladesh, who promptly obliged and arrived in the country on January 21.