India and Bangladesh have agreed to share information on terrorists after the home secretaries of the two neighbouring countries concluded their talks on internal security and other cross-border issues.
Quoting Bangladeshi Home Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan, a number of Indian Media reported that the issue of Bangladeshi nationals being detained by Indian border forces was a major issue of the talks while "both the countries have agreed to reduce such incidents to zero figure".
After a meeting with his Indian counterpart Rajiv Mehrishi at a city hotel on Tuesday, Mozammel Haque Khan told the journalists: "They (India) assured us of providing information immediately if they get any information on militancy. We can eliminate terrorism and insurgency through bilateral understanding and intelligence sharing."
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Referring to the issue of both ways border trespassing, he said: "For this we [both Bangladesh and India] need to educate our people so that they do not cross the borders and abide by all international regulations in this regard. This would also ease the task of BGB and BSF and stop such killings."
He said cross-border drug smuggling was another major issue of the talks and "being a non-narcotics producing country Bangladesh sought Indian cooperation in this regard."
The Indian Media reported that the Indian side earlier raised the issues of the influx of fake Indian currency, cattle smuggling, and illegal infiltration and sought Bangladesh's cooperation to completely stop these.
Official talks between the two home ministries come less than a week after extradition of separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) leader Anup Chetia from Bangladesh and subsequent deportation of Prime suspect in Narayanganj seven-murder case, Nur Hossain, from India.
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The Indian officials said India thanked Bangladesh for deporting Chetia and asked for extradition of other Indian criminals from the country.
The two secretaries met a day after the Joint Working Group of Indian and Bangladesh home ministries reviewed internal security and cross-border issues.
Both the delegations comprised representatives of the paramilitary border forces, police, customs and foreign offices of the two countries.
