BSF, BDR exchange list of fugitive 'terrorists'
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) chiefs have exchanged lists of "fugitive terrorists".
By PTI |
DHAKA: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) chiefs have exchanged lists of "fugitive terrorists" at the end of a four-day biannual meeting here and agreed to intensify cooperation to minimise cross-border crime and resolve outstanding issues.
Speaking at a joint press briefing late on Sunday BDR Director-General Major General Shakil Ahmed said that he handed over a list of 1,464 people to his BSF counterpart Ashish Kumar Mitra and received 263 names of wanted criminals taking shelter across the border.
"We have already made our position clear by categorically saying we never give shelter to any insurgents," Ahmed said.
The border forces of the two neighbouring countries also agreed on four other issues including identifying areas of the border vulnerable to trans-border crime.
"We have identified border areas vulnerable to trans-border crime which would be jointly patrolled by the frontier forces of the two countries," Mitra said.
The Director-General level talks between the two paramilitary forces came a month after the two BDR soldiers were killed in BSF gunfire at northwestern frontiers.
"I apologise for that," Mitra said but called it an isolated incident while an enquiry was underway to take actions against the persons responsible.
He, however, said the two border forces guard more than 4,000 km and therefore it would be quite unreasonable to expect that nothing is going to happen on this long border guarded by more than 100,000 armed people on both sides.
Mitra said the BSF had ordered night-time curfew on most areas along its border with Bangladesh along side erecting barbed wire fencing and using flood lights to stop infiltration as "we do not want anyone to be killed" in the frontiers.
Speaking at a joint press briefing late on Sunday BDR Director-General Major General Shakil Ahmed said that he handed over a list of 1,464 people to his BSF counterpart Ashish Kumar Mitra and received 263 names of wanted criminals taking shelter across the border.
"We have already made our position clear by categorically saying we never give shelter to any insurgents," Ahmed said.
The border forces of the two neighbouring countries also agreed on four other issues including identifying areas of the border vulnerable to trans-border crime.
"We have identified border areas vulnerable to trans-border crime which would be jointly patrolled by the frontier forces of the two countries," Mitra said.
The Director-General level talks between the two paramilitary forces came a month after the two BDR soldiers were killed in BSF gunfire at northwestern frontiers.
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"I apologise for that," Mitra said but called it an isolated incident while an enquiry was underway to take actions against the persons responsible.
He, however, said the two border forces guard more than 4,000 km and therefore it would be quite unreasonable to expect that nothing is going to happen on this long border guarded by more than 100,000 armed people on both sides.
Mitra said the BSF had ordered night-time curfew on most areas along its border with Bangladesh along side erecting barbed wire fencing and using flood lights to stop infiltration as "we do not want anyone to be killed" in the frontiers.
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