A list of anti-Indian elements hiding in Bangladesh has been handed over Dhaka. The two sides are also planning to have joint retreat ceremonies as done at the Indo Pak border to symbolise good relations. The ceremony will involve troops from both sides dressed in full regalia performing the retreat of ceremonial lowering of flags. The matter figured prominently at the five day joint border talks between the Border Security Force and the Bangladesh Border Guards. Measures to curb the trans-border crime, smuggling and single-line fencing at Zero Line in some patches of Indo-Bangla were also discussed at the talks. The Director General level talks began on Tuesday.BSF Director General Raman Srivastava later told reporters in New Delhi today that it has been decided in-principle to have a joint retreat ceremony at the Petraploe border along Bangladesh frontier as done at Wagah and Attari on Pakistan border. The two sides will be examining whether such ceremonies, which will be symbolic of the good relations between them, are possible at Akhora and Phoolbani too. The BSF will deploy its recently inducted women personnel to carry out the ceremonies at this frontier.The Bangladesh delegation was led by it's Director General Major General Rafiqul Islam.
News On AIR | March 12, 2011 9:02 PM
List of anti-India elements hiding in Bangladesh handed over to Dhaka