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====Bangladesh====
{{Further|Bangladesh Liberation War|Indo-Pakistani War of 1971}}
In the early 1970s, the [[Pakistan Army|army of Pakistan]] launched [[Operation Searchlight|military crackdown]] in response to the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh independence movement]].<ref>{{Banglapedia|Operation_Searchlight|Operation Searchlight}}</ref> Nearly 1 crore (10 million) refugees fled to India. R&AW was instrumental in the formation of the Bangladeshi guerrilla organisation [[Mukti Bahini]] and responsible for supplying information, providing training and heavy ammunition to this organisation. It is also alleged that R&AW planned and executed the [[1971 Indian Airlines hijacking]] as a [[false flag]] operation to ban overflight by Pakistani aircraft and disrupt Pakistani troop movement in [[East Pakistan]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} [[Special Frontier Force]], then under R&AW actively participated in military operations especially in the [[Chittagong Hill Tracts]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-secret-war-in-bangladesh/article2747538.ece | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | first=Praveen | last=Swami | title=India's secret war in Bangladesh | date=26 December 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331062228/http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-secret-war-in-bangladesh/article2747538.ece | archive-date=31 March 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> After the war ended in the successful creation of Bangladesh. However, four years later [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] was assassinated on 15 August 1975 at his residence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/before-his-assassination-there-was-an-attempt-on-mujibs-life/article4611312.ece|title=Before his assassination, there was an attempt on Mujib's life|author=R. K. Radhakrishnan|newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=25 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226225316/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/before-his-assassination-there-was-an-attempt-on-mujibs-life/article4611312.ece|archive-date=26 December 2016|df=dmy-all|date=13 April 2013}}</ref> R&AW operatives claimed that they had advance information about [[Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|Mujibur Rahman's assassination]] but Sheikh Mujib tragically ignored inputs.<ref name="SunilSaini_RNKao" /> He was killed along with much of his family. Later, R&AW successfully thwarted plans of assassinating [[Sheikh Hasina Wazed]], daughter of Mujibur Rahman, by [[Islamist extremists]].<ref>[http://www.lankalibrary.com/pol/hasina.html The plan to assassinate Bangladesh Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina Wajed: How LTTE deal was blocked, suicide bombers failed to explode] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061110235700/http://www.lankalibrary.com/pol/hasina.html |date=10 November 2006 }} last visited on 9.4.07</ref>

In 1990, R&AW had helped engineer and support a democratic uprising against [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad|Mohammed Ershad]], thus leading to his resignation. His Pro-Pakistan and [[Anti-Hindu sentiment|Anti-Hindu]] policy decisions had been considered a threat by Indian government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2020/Aug/02/raw-a-history-of-indias-covert-operations-showcases-indias-shadow-warriors-2176989.html|title='R&AW: A History of India's Covert Operations' showcases India's shadow warriors|date=2 August 2020|publisher=New Indian Express|access-date=10 October 2023|archive-date=20 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920033749/https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2020/aug/02/raw-a-history-of-indias-covert-operations-showcases-indias-shadow-warriors-2176989.amp|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1991, after [[Khaleda Zia]] had won election, India was alarmed over increased harassment of pro-India politicians, large-scale radicalisation and meticulously planned infiltration of trained extremists into Indian territory by [[Jamaat-e-Islami]]. JeI had set-up several terror training camps located along the border. So in order to stop all this activity, R&AW spontaneously bombed several of its camps and a major ISI safe house, thus dismantling JeI's terror network.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/india/raw-covert-ops-dismantled-jamaat-e-islami-terror-camps-in-1992-reveals-spymaster-amar-bhushan-in-book-4636441.html/amp|title=R&AW covert ops dismantled Jamaat-e-Islami terror camps in 1992, reveals spymaster Amar Bhushan in book|date=30 June 2018|access-date=30 June 2018|publisher=First post|archive-date=6 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161727/https://www.firstpost.com/india/raw-covert-ops-dismantled-jamaat-e-islami-terror-camps-in-1992-reveals-spymaster-amar-bhushan-in-book-4636441.html/amp|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1977–97, India took active part in [[Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict]]. R&AW trained and financed the rebels of [[Shanti Bahini]].<ref name="nyt11Jun1989">{{cite news |last=Hazarika |first=Sanjoy |date=11 June 1989 |title=Bangladeshi Insurgents Say India Is Supporting Them |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/world/bangladeshi-insurgents-say-india-is-supporting-them.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807013059/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/11/world/bangladeshi-insurgents-say-india-is-supporting-them.html|archive-date=August 7, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="academia.edu">{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2504753|title=Bangladesh: A Critical Review of the Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT) Peace Accord|author=A. Kabir|journal=Working Paper No 2. The Role of Parliaments in Conflict & Post Conflict in Asia|date=January 2005|access-date=8 March 2015|archive-date=17 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517154946/https://www.academia.edu/2504753|url-status=live}}</ref>