Why is Muhammad Yunus so worried at Tulsi Gabbard’s comments on attacks against Hindus?

U.S. Intelligence Chief has all information about Bangladesh which India can use

By Sushil Kutty

United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide “evidence”.

“This statement is both misleading and damaging to the image and reputation of Bangladesh, a nation whose traditional practice of Islam has been famously inclusive and peaceful and that has made remarkable strides in its fight against extremism and terrorism,” said Bangladesh.

Tulsi Gabbard is more ‘Hindu’ than Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But Tulsi is the genuine article. Prime Minister Modi is camouflage. If Gabbard is indeed “intelligence”, she should have caught on to Modi’s game.

Like Bangladesh caught on to Tulsi’s “game”. In an interview with NDTV, Tulsi sounded like she held Bangladesh guilty of “longtime unfortunate persecution, killing, and abuse of religious minorities like Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and others, which has been a major area of concern (for the Donald Trump administration).”

As expected, the barb struck. Bangladesh expressed “deep concern.” Tulsi Gabbard was talking about the situation in Bangladesh and the feeling gathering ground that the Trump administration had no love lost for Dhaka.

“We note with deep concern and distress the remarks made by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, in which she alleged ‘persecution and killing’ of religious minorities in Bangladesh,” the interim government of Bangladesh said in a statement on ‘X’.

Tulsi Gabbard, in fact, went a step further and added, “The ‘threat of Islamic terrorists’ in the country is ‘rooted’ in the ‘ideology and objective’ to “rule and govern with an Islamist caliphate.”

Bangladesh, which is governed by a Nobel laureate who is friendly with both Pakistan and China, found Gabbard’s assessment “both misleading and damaging to the image and reputation of Bangladesh, a nation whose traditional practice of Islam has been famously inclusive and peaceful.”

Tulsi Gabbard has been in India at the Raisina Dialogue forum in New Delhi and had been treated like a superstar. With meetings with a clutch of top Indian leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

The affinity with Tulsi Gabbard also had to do with her ‘Hinduness’. Tulsi will be taking home with her ‘Gangajal’ from the Sangam which was witness to the Mahakumbh, the biggest gathering of earthlings on the planet in over 144 years at least if not in 5000 years.

But right now, the interim government of Bangladesh is saying Gabbard’s remarks are “not based on any evidence or specific allegations and that they paint an entire nation with a broad and unjustified brush.” Tulsi Gabbard’s only friend in the subcontinent is India. Bangladesh isn’t and Pakistan definitely isn’t.

China is watching her every move and so is Pakistan, two nations that have no truck with India even if Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to maintain the impression that India and China have a lot going on between the both of them.

Prime Minister Modi’s newfound love for podcasts paints a picture of a man hundreds of millions of Indians have heard of but have never listened to. Pakistani analysts and “India/US experts” have been for the last couple of days trying their best to make head or tail of DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s visit to India.

One Indian-origin professor of Delaware University told a professor in Pakistan, “It is not that India is happy with the USA but Prime Minister Modi doesn’t want to upset President Trump.” Dr Qamar Cheema, executive director of Sanober Institute, Islamabad, was bothered that Pakistan wasn’t at the Raisina Dialogue.

“We can’t be there. Both China and Pakistan aren’t there. Representatives of 125 countries are in New Delhi but not Pakistan or Bangladesh. Tulsi Gabbard is meeting all 125, but we have been shut out. It is a failure of our leadership, our civilian leadership. They’re incompetent.”

The tension and the frustration in the Pakistani professor’s tone and tenor was at odds with that of the Indian-origin Delaware academic Dr. Mohammad Abdul Muqtedar Khan’s, both of them Muslims living through yet another Ramzan. But while one sounded morose, the other sounded amused.

For Bangladesh, Gabbard’s visit to India and her presence in the subcontinent was a chance, however slim and remote, to reach out to the Trump administration, and assure President Trump that Bangladesh “too has faced challenges of extremism, but it has continuously worked in partnership with the international community, including the US.”

Bangladesh didn’t like to be clubbed with “any Islamic caliphate.” Dr. Cheema rued the fact that Gabbard was “Hindu” though it’s “none of my business”. He couldn’t take it that Islamabad was, in his words, a “misunderstood victim of international terrorism”. The Indian-origin University of Delaware professor made all the required noises but nothing could lift the air of gloom in Dr. Qamar Cheema’s ‘House of Disappointments’. (IPA Service)