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.

According to him, Bangladesh, enjoys a “strategic geographic position” critical for their global jihad goals. "...having a strong jihad base in Bengal will facilitate performing guerrilla attacks inside India simultaneously from both sides and facilitate creating a condition of tawahhush (fear and chaos) in India along with the help of the existing local mujahideen there...,” he said, according to a Hindustan times report.

Bangladesh fighters “are able to connect and cooperate with the mujahideen 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).