Pursuant to the developing story on the 3 men arrested in Bangladesh for plotting to attack U.S and Indian political institutions, I’d like to point out an interesting piece of editorial analysis by the India based South Asia Analysis Group. The short paper examines the history of Lashkar e Taiba in a broader, electoral context and argues, a bit too forcefully perhaps, that the founding of Lashkar e Taiba went hand in glove with the accession of Islamist rhetoric into Pakistani politics and a revenge motive to avenge Indian involvement in Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Find the article here. It is eminently worth reading if only for the issues it enumerates, some of which have either already been adjudicated or, soon, will be adjudicated in Bangladeshi courts.