BGB-BSF DG-level conf’ce to begin in Dhaka on August 25

A four-day Director General-level border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and India's Border Security Force (BSF) is set to begin on August 25 at the BGB headquarters at Pilkhana in Dhaka, reports UNB.

Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury came up with the information while talking to reporters at the Secretariat.

The conference will focus on issues including prevention of border killings, push-ins and illegal crossings, preventing drug trafficking, smuggling of arms, ammunition, and other contraband from India, suppressing trans border crimes, curbing unauthorised infrastructure development and unapproved activities, riverbank protection and equitable sharing of border river waters.