Bangladesh, Dec. 7 -- There are moments in the life of a nation when the political noise is so deafening, the confusion so layered, that one must pause to examine the deeper tremors beneath the surface. Bangladesh, today, stands at such a crossroads—bruised by reckless rhetoric, weakened by factional zeal, and drifting toward a horizon clouded with perilous uncertainty. And what makes this moment particularly unsettling is not only the chaos emanating from within, but also the dangerously muddled narratives shaping the country from without.

Take, for instance, the astonishing remarks by Lt Gen Ahmed Shareef Chaudhry of Pakistans ISPR, who placed Imran Khan and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the same category of “traitors.” Th...