In an interview in the ISIS magazine 'Dabiq', Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif, the ‘amir’ of IS fighters in Bangladesh said that ISIS will use fighters in Bangladesh and Pakistan for “guerrilla attacks inside India”. These fighters, they said, will be working with local mujahideen, the Bangladesh terror group head said.

Bangladesh fighters “are able to connect and cooperate with the mujahidin in the various wilayat (branches) of the Khilafah (caliphate), including the brothers in Wilayat Khurasan”. The ISIS propaganda magazine issue addressed the group’s operations in Bangladesh, including killing a Hindu priest and a Hindu businessman, and remembered Bangladeshi jihadi named Abu Jandal al-Bangali, who died fighting in Syria. For Al-Hanif, Bangladesh operations are “a stepping-stone for jihad in Burma” (Myanmar).