B’desh to seek scraping of ‘uneven agreements’ on borders with India

Dhaka, Jan 29: Bangladesh’s interim government on Wednesday said that it would seek to scrap some “uneven agreements” on borders with India during the meeting of the directors general of the border guards of the two countries next month.
“Discussions will be held over all sorts of border-related agreements with India,” Home Adviser Lt Gen (retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said.
He said the Bangladeshi side would seek to cancel “some uneven agreements” related to border management alongside and discuss other related issues. He said that northeastern Kulaura Railway Station is an inter-country railway station which is situated three kilometres inside Bangladesh while Border Guard Bangladesh intends not to allow free entry of Indians there and instead proposes the installation of an immigration checkpoint with a customs facility on the border.
The home adviser said the other issues include the killing of Bangladesh nationals in border areas, infiltrations of Indian nationals, common rivers, and smuggling of weapons and drugs, arms, ammunition and explosives into Bangladesh. (PTI)