Let us alyse the issue in hand without prejudice and call a spade a spade. It is true that after Partition, the Hindus who chose to stay where they had been before the cataclysmic event of 1947, both in West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), have had to face merciless persecution at the hands of Islamist radicals forming the so-called fringe of the Islamic state of both Pakistan and Bangladesh but who are actually an essential component of the establishment in both the countries. The situation in Bangladesh has been far more serious, considering that it had a huge Hindu population – about 34 per cent – at the time of Partition, which has now been reportedly reduced to a mere 6-7 per cent. The persecution includes savage butchery, destruction of private property, desecration of temples, and rapes. The establishment at Dhaka has done nothing – except in recent times under a relatively moderate Sheikh Hasi dispensation – to come to their rescue. But this is tural. In any Islamic state, however pretentious it may be as to its secular credentials, no government can afford to counter the writ of clerics, as history is a standing testimony to. How could, then, Bangladesh evolve differently? The situation in Pakistan, where the military acts in cahoots with the likes of Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed, is far more worse and makes the country a candidate deserving indeed to be declared a rogue state even from the Hindu-cleansing point of view apart from the fact that it is the world capital of jihadi terrorism of the most barbaric kind.