India, Feb. 28 -- Bangladesh Army chief Gen Waker-uz-Zaman on February 25 revealed the political rot and anarchy within the neighboring country when he warned the fissiparous Islamist forces to stand down or else Republic's freedom would be put at stake.

Gen Waker's statement on an Army memorial event in Dhaka was a blunt admission of the state of lawlessness and anarchy in Bangladesh with the nominated Interim government under Mohammed Yunus reduced to a mere bystander in the street fight between radical youth forces of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami. After the collapse of the Sheikh Hasina government last August 5, Bangladesh is going down the spiral with fighting political forces using political Islam to encourage uncertainty and unrest in t...