Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is actively working to relocate ULFA (Independent) leader Paresh Baruah from China’s Yunnan province—specifically Xishuangbanna Dai near Myanmar—to Dhaka, exploiting Bangladesh’s post-Sheikh Hasina instability since August 2024. Reports from December 17, 2025, indicate ISI’s outreach to Bangladeshi military and political circles, aiming to revive the BNP-Jamaat era’s insurgent safe havens, echoing Baruah’s alleged role in the 2004 Chittagong arms smuggling plot. From India’s strategic lens, this risks reigniting ULFA attacks in Assam, bolstering groups like NSCN, and challenging Act East Policy amid China-Pakistan axis meddling. New Delhi has ramped up 4,096-km border surveillance and diplomatic pressure on interim Dhaka leadership, wary of cross-border terror resurgence threatening northeastern security.