Army chief's programme-packed schedule in India

Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, OSP, ndu, psc has visited the Indian Army's 50 Independent Parachute Brigade, Wargaming Development Centre, Defence Image Processing and Analysis Centre and Indian National Defence College (NDC), in the last two days of his India tour.

He called on Lt Gen (retd) Vinod G Khandare, military adviser to the Secretariat of the State Security Council at the Office of the Prime Minister of India today where he discussed various security issues during a meeting.

The army chief visited the 50 Independent Parachute Brigade of the Indian Army yesterday where he was briefed on the capabilities, activities and training of the brigade.

This brigade was the first to enter Dhaka through Tongi as a member of the Allied Forces in the War of Liberation in 1971.

General Shafiuddin visited the Indian Wargaming Development Centre and Defense Image Processing and Analysis Centre this morning. There he learned about the activities and technical issues of the two institutions and discussed possible areas of future cooperation.

Later in the afternoon, the chief of army staff addressed a seminar on the India-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations, Foreign Policy and Security at the National Defense College of India.

At the end of the seminar, he answered various questions of the NDC course members during an open discussion.