BDR, BSF to maintain peace on Sylhet border

Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officials at a flag meeting at Durki in the Indian state of Meghalaya yesterday agreed to maintain peace along Sylhet border.
They also agreed to resolve the border irritants through close contacts between the officials of border guards of the two countries.
The battalion commander level meeting began at 11:00am and continued until 3:00pm, an official told this correspondent on return from the meeting.
Commanding Officer of 21 Rifles Battalion Colonel Khairul Quadir, who led the Bangladesh side at the meeting, said both sides agreed to strengthen cooperation between them for controlling trans-border crimes. "We discussed trans-border problems like trespass, smuggling, pilferage of timbers from forests along the border."
The issues like arrest, kidnapping or killing of Bangladeshi nationals on border by Indian tribal people and BSF were highlighted in the meeting, he said
SK Sinha, Commandant of 98 BSF Battalion led the Indian side at the flag meeting.