New Delhi: In a major development reported after decades of cross-border insurgency along India’s eastern frontier, the BSF has said camps and hideouts of Indian Insurgent Groups (IIGs) across the country’s frontier on the Bangladeshi soil have been reduced to “almost zero”.
The director general of the Border Security Force, K.K. Sharma, said this first-time achievement was the result of an excellent and positive cooperation between the border guarding forces of both the countries over the past few years.
The BSF’s counterpart in the neighbouring country is the Border Guard Bangladesh.
“Whenever we have information about exodus or insurgents of the northeastern states in Bangladesh, we share the information and immediate raids are undertaken (by the BGB).
“As a result, the number of training places and hideouts of these insurgents have been reduced to almost zero,” the BSF DG said.
If there are some still existing, they are of a floating nature, Sharma said, indicating that no permanent camps of these banned terror and insurgent groups now exist on the Bangladeshi side.
For the past so many years and decades, the BSF used to hand over a list of IIGs and terror groups to the BGB during the DG-level talks seeking action against them, a senior officer said requesting anonymity.
