BDR-BSF holds 'fruitful' meet

Indian and Bangladeshi border guards on Thursday came to terms for a peaceful coexistence across Sylhet border, a BDR official said.

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Published : 24 June 2010, 10:39 AM
Updated : 24 June 2010, 10:39 AM
Sylhet, June 24 (bdnews24.com) – Indian and Bangladeshi border guards on Thursday came to terms for a peaceful coexistence across Sylhet border, a BDR official said.
Deputy director general of Bangladesh Rifles, Obaidul Haq said, "The meeting has been fruitful. BDR and BSF have agreed to maintain peaceful and friendly coexistence across the border."
The two sides decided this at a meeting after they traded fire at Jaintapur border in Sylhet over construction of roads and possession of land on June 22 when at least one Bangladeshi was injured.
The meeting was held over four and a half hours from noon at Dauki town in Meghalaya, and north-eastern state of India.
Haq, who led Bangladesh Rifles, said issues of disputed land, gunfire exchange, infiltration across the border and excavation of moats within 150 yards of land in Bangladesh features strongly in the meeting.
Like a BDR-BSF meeting held in Dhaka in 2009, killings of innocent Bangladeshis across Indian-Bangladesh border had also dominated BDR-BSF talks in New Delhi this year.
However, killing of innocent Bangladeshis by BSF still continues.
The Indian border security on Monday allegedly killed two Bangladeshis in Jhenaidah and Chapainawabganj.
Inspector general of BSF's Assam and Meghalaya frontier Ramesh Chandra Saxena led the Indian side at the talks.
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