In a video message released on Tuesday, Kamran Saeed Usmani, a leader from the youth wing of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML), issued a strong and provocative warning directed at India. He claimed that if India were to take any hostile action against Bangladesh, Pakistan would respond militarily, invoking its armed forces and missile capabilities. Alongside this warning, Usmani openly advocated the formation of a military alliance between Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Usmani declared that Pakistan would not remain silent if Bangladesh’s sovereignty or autonomy were threatened. He said that even an attempt to undermine Bangladesh, or what he described as casting an “evil eye” on the country, would trigger a forceful response from Pakistan. According to him, the people of Pakistan, its military, and its strategic weapons were fully prepared to act if such a situation arose.
In his statement, Usmani accused India of attempting to push Bangladesh under what he termed “India’s ideological dominance.” He asserted that Pakistan does not accept any effort to impose India’s worldview or political ideology on Bangladesh. He framed this as a broader resistance to what he called the “Akhand Bharat ideology,” alleging that India seeks to reshape the region according to that vision.
Usmani further claimed that Pakistan had, in the past, managed to put India in a difficult strategic position and suggested that it could do so again if circumstances demanded. He outlined a hypothetical military scenario in which Pakistan would engage India from the western front, Bangladesh would exert pressure from the east, and China would remain focused on regions such as Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh, thereby stretching India across multiple fronts.
In a separate video message, Usmani escalated his rhetoric by explicitly calling for a formal military alliance between Pakistan and Bangladesh. He alleged that Bangladesh was being destabilised by India’s Border Security Force and accused India of attempting to weaken or dismantle Bangladesh as part of a larger plan to create a Hindu state under the Akhand Bharat concept.
He proposed that both countries should allow the establishment of military bases on each other’s territory, suggesting that Pakistan set up a base in Bangladesh and Bangladesh do the same in Pakistan. According to Usmani, such an arrangement would significantly enhance strategic leverage and regional influence.
He further argued that a Pakistan–Bangladesh military partnership could connect the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with Bangladeshi ports, strengthening control over key maritime and trade routes. Emphasising the strategic importance of sea access, Usmani claimed that dominance over ports and oceans translates into global power, and that such an alliance would fundamentally alter regional power dynamics.
