01452nam a2200181Ia 4500 181130s2018 xx 000 0 und d Mannan, Md. Abdul Islam's role in Bangladesh -Pakistan alignment against India under the BNP's rule 2018 p.138-159. Jun This article engages with Bangladesh�s policy of seeking alignment with Pakistan, pursued by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government in different tenures from the 1990s on. In this endeavour, the article takes into account the BNP�s politics of Islamic identity as a key variable of analysis. This identity factor tacitly presents Bangladesh, Pakistan and India as �Muslim Bangladesh�, �Muslim Pakistan�, and �Hindu India�, respectively. It frames �Muslim Pakistan� as a mutual ally of �Muslim Bangladesh� and shares with Pakistan a view of �Hindu India� as the enemy-other. It operates in foreign policy through domestic politics in Bangladesh, wherein for the BNP, being anti-Indian is synonymous with being pro-Islam. It is claimed in this article that this politics of Islamic identity draws Bangladesh into an alignment with Pakistan, dragging Bangladesh into Pakistan�s own conflict with India. - Reproduced. Bengali nationalism Islam - Bangladesh Islam - Pakistan India Quarterly Islam - Bangladesh 506769 506769 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-12-07 74(2), Jun, 2018: p.138-159. AR118564 2018-12-07 2018-12-07 AR