Originally posted by Toramana
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You are correct.
1. Pakistan has a lot of influence in Bangladesh through its proxies such as the Jamaat e "Islami" and also the BNP who worked to promote Pakistani interests at the cost of Bangladesh's interests by supporting anti-Indian separatists against our nuclear neighbour, India.
2. Whenever the Awami League is in power in Bangladesh, Pakistan goes beserk and then tells Saudi to carry out sanctions against us e.g. blocking recruitment of Bangladeshi workers (a massive blow for the Bangladeshi economy since our 2nd biggest source of foreign income - after garments - is expatriate remittances, and Saudi Arabia is the country with our biggest number of foreign workers).
Pakistanis being the masters of deceit and manipulation have also, with the Jamaatis, managed to turn the whole global "Islamist" network against us, so when one Jamaati political leader, Quader Mollah, is killed it is seen as a global event with 0.2 million tweets and the Bangladeshi embassy in Turkey attacked, with the Turkish and Arab media completely ignoring the larger issue of the 1971 war and the hundreds of thousands killed.
In the unwritten racial hierarchy amongst Muslims, Pakistanis are seen as superior or "more Muslim" to Bengalis.
The Pakistani regime moved a resolution in their parliament against the execution of a Bangladeshi citizen (Quader Mollah) for killing Bangladeshi civilians on Bangladeshi soil as he was a Jamaati and they need to protect their assets and their influence in "east Pakistan", which they see as spiritually their ex-province which must retain loyalty to Pakistan.
So the cunning Pakistanis have turned the Saudis, Turks, Ikhwani/"Islamist" network against us while all these 3 aforementioned parties turn a blind eye (probably even support) the genocide committed against us.
Yes, truly sad, but indicative of the failure of political Islam, which is based on ignorance.
3. Bangladeshis are quite naive people with little self-esteem unlike proud Afghans who are also more shrewd. So Bengalis will fall for the "Muslim" card even today used by Pakistanis (look at Asad71 and how pro-Pakistan he is and his opposition to the Baloch resistance), Afghans however are different.
Afghans look down on Pakistanis as racially inferior and semi-Hindu. Afghans regard themselves as more Muslim than Pakistanis and having brought Islam to them and find it a joke if a Pakistani speaks to them about Islam.
This may sound like anecdotal mentioning of cultural attitudes but it is more important than that since on a mass level there would be no pressure on the Kabul government to support Pakistan as an "Islamic" duty.
4. Hindus are not that pacifist. The Marathis conquered many kingdoms and defeated and subjugated Muslims until Ahmed Shah Abdali (rahmatullahi 'alaih) himself had to come to defeat them. There have been many Hindu kingdoms and warriors.
5. The one major way that Modi can hit Pakistan is through supporting the Baloch insurgency. Remember about a year or two ago, the then prime minister Gilani spoke about a referendum on independence for the Baloch as the insurgency was doing a lot of damage.

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