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BSF-BDR to increase patrols; India gives terror camp list

2005-09-27 The Border Security Force (BSF) of India and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) today decided to increase their 'coordinated patrolling' and agreed on a set of confidence-building measures (CBMs) even as the Indian side handed over a list of 172 insurgent training camps in that country demanding they be shut down.

The two border forces, which began their three-day bi-annual Director General-level meeting here, discussed the issue of fencing by India which is opposed by Bangladesh and deliberated upon ways to keep the situation along the 4095 km long border calm.

"We will have more coordinated patrolling," BDR DG Maj Gen Jehangir Alam Choudhury told reporters about the outcome of the first day's talks.

Choudhury, flanked by his BSF counterpart R S Mooshahary, was speaking after calling on Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil.

Mooshahary said the two sides had discussed certain CBMs and agreed that skirmishes like the recent one in Malda area of West Bengal, should be avoided.

The talks covered fencing and checking of cross-border migration and smuggling, the BSF chief said.

Sources told PTI that the Indian side handed over a list of 172 camps of North East insurgent groups existing in Bangladesh and demanded these be closed.

Significantly, the number is 18 less than that cited by India during the last meeting with BDR six months back.

"Apparently some action has been taken by the Bangladesh against the insurgents," the sources said.

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