Guwahati, Aug. 11 -- The recent media briefing by ousted Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi revealed a little about her return journey, but her son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, made some stunning comments about the current status of Bangladesh under the Tarique Rahman-led Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government in Dhaka.

Attending the event virtually from the United States, Joy claimed that his homeland was slowly turning into another Pakistan, where radical Islamist elements have been operating freely with the support of anti-Indian elements. Terming Bangladesh a failed state, Joy apprehended that the South Asian nation may emerge as a breeding ground for regional terrorism in the coming days.

He also revealed that hundreds of c...