India, March 22 -- Intelligence circles have warned of a possible security situation developing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and the Rohingya refugee areas of Bangladesh, with Rohingya armed groups apparently being provided arms and ammunition by entities having considerable influence in the recently elected government in Dhaka. The worry is that this may have a direct fallout on India's Northeast.

Among the individuals seen as influential in the evolving security landscape is Dr Khalilur Rahman, the former National Security Advisor of Muhammad Yunus' interim government, who was sworn in as the 24th Foreign Minister of Bangladesh in the incumbent BNP government of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. His appointment, in some quarters, i...