Killing of innocent Bangladeshis by BSF among host of issues on agenda

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A top-level border conference between Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) will be held in Dhaka tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss a host of outstanding issues, including the killing of innocent Bangladeshis by the BSF personnel, reports UNB.
BDR Director General Major General Shakil Ahmed will lead an 18-member delegation and BSF Director General Ashish Kumar Mitra will lead a 17-member delegation to the Indo-Bangladesh border talks at the BDR Headquarters in the city.
The BSF delegation led by Mitra arrives in the city today (Wednesday).
A BDR press release said the host side would raise the issues of killing, kidnapping and detaining of Bangladeshi nationals, smuggling of illegal arms and ammo, explosives, drugs including phensidyl, trespasses and push-ins.
Demarcation of land boundary, installation of border pillars at Berubari and Singpara-Khudipara in Panchagarh district, completion of survey at undermarcated Muhurir Char, Doikhata and Lathitila, hand-over of surveyed land at Naogaon after constructing border pillars, construction of defence infrastructures, roads, barbed-wire fencing and installations within 150 yards of the zero point will also come up for discussion.
The release said the BSF's obstruction to construction and repairing of roads and development works on Bangladesh side along the border as well as their obstruction to cultivation in adversely possessed lands in Uttarkul and Amalshid in Sylhet District would be discussed at the conference.
On the other hand, the BSF delegation is likely to raise the issues of committing crimes by Bangladeshi nationals inside India, infiltration, border fencing and development works within 150 yards from zero point considering local unavoidable problems and prevention of smuggling of drugs, cattle and Indian currency, Indian lands in Shilchar sector along the Surma river and activities of Bangladeshi 'fundamentalists and terrorists' in Indian territory and presence of Indian insurgents in Bangladesh territory.