India, Oct. 28 -- Bangladesh's interim head of Government, Muhammad Yunus, has come under fire for presenting an illustrated book - featured a distorted map of Bangladesh, which includes India's northeastern States and parts of West Bengal within its borders - to Pakistan's Joint Chief of Staff Committee Chairperson, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, during the latter's official visit to Dhaka.
The image of the gift, shared on Yunus' verified X (formerly Twitter) account, quickly ignited a diplomatic storm. The depiction closely mirrors the so-called Greater Bangladesh map - an expansionist concept long promoted by Islamist group Sultanat-e-Bangla, which envisions Bangladesh extending into Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland ...