Border killings to dominate BGB-BSF talks: official
The problem of killings on the border will probably dominate largely the talks between Bangladeshi and Indian border guards as chiefs of both paramilitary forces set for a six-day assembly from September 13 in Dhaka, officials said.
“Border killing is an essential issue for all of us,” a Border Safeguard Bangladesh (BGB) official told BSS, adding that until August this season, 33 Bangladeshis were killed along Bangladesh-India frontiers.
Speaking with BSS, BGB’s procedures director Lieutenant Colonel Fayzur Rahman said Bangladesh always laid huge importance to violence in the borders as after any incident of killing on borders “we begin talks at all amounts”.
He said protests are lodged in flag meetings with Boarder Reliability Force (BSF) at the camp level on the frontiers, as the issue is raised up to the foreign ministry for diplomatic initiatives to avoid the phenomenon.
According to privileges group Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), 15 people had been killed along the Bangladesh-India border in 2018, the quantity rose to 43 last year. In the primary seven months of the year, 29 persons were killed.
BGB director general Key Basic M Shafeenul Islam and his newly appointed counterpart in Indian Border Security Pressure (BSF) Rakesh Asthana might lead the talks on two sides at BGB’s Pilkhana headquarters found in Dhaka.
The BGB businesses director said cross boarder smuggling particularly drug smuggling, construction of different structures like barbed wire fencing and different installations were other folks issues to be talked about in the meeting.
He, on the other hand, described the interacting with to become a routine one when the two sides would discuss aswell methods to improve relations between the two border forces, alongside others problems of mutual interest.
Information from New Delhi suggest, cattle smuggling, fake currency business and people trafficking were likely to be major problems of the BSF aspect in the talks.
Indian home ministry sources stated alongside the BSF sector commanders, officials of India’s Narcotics Control Bureau and representatives of their external affairs ministry and other agencies concerned would accompany Asthana on Dhaka.
Officials in both capitals said the BGB and BSF chiefs were more likely to sign a good joint record of dialogue at the end of the talks, the 50th at the level of directors general since 1975.
The DG-level talks between BGB and BSF was initially held in 1975, while the talks are generally held twice a year, once in Dhaka as soon as in Delhi for control of porous 4,096 km long frontiers.
The BGB-BSF director general level talks are set to be held times before planned foreign minister level Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting using virtual media to be hosted by Dhaka in the future this month.
