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      <title>Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Foreign Interference Allegations Reignite Debate Over Minority Protection</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Indian and Bangladeshi intelligence assessments have identified Pakistan&#39;s Inter-Services Intelligence as an active external actor in the unrest that followed the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in 2024. ]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[When Dipu Chandra Das was lynched and burned in Bhaluka, Mymensingh, in December 2025, the immediate cause was a rumour about a blasphemous remark. A crowd gathered, and then did what crowds with a certain kind of permission tend to do. But Dipu Chandra Das did not die only becau  <p><a href="https://www.republicworld.com/opinion/bangladesh-at-the-crossroads-foreign-interference-allegations-reignite-debate-over-minority-protection-2026-05-20-125044">Read More</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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