Being Good Neighbours

Younis Ahmad Kaloo

The 45^th border co-ordination conference between Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) was held from October 2 to 6 in New Delhi. The 25-member delegation led by Director General of BGB, Major General Abul Hossian, held discussions pertaining to border management and other related issues with their Indian counterpart led by Director General K.K. Sharma.

The conference saw both the sides placing their respective border-related issues before each other. The issues raised by the BGB during the discussion with the BSF included firing, killing, injuring, beating, arresting and apprehension of Bangladeshi nationals by the BSF, smuggling of fire arms, ammunition, explosive etc from India to Bangladesh, s