India, Bangladesh to discuss anti-terror cooperation
January 17th, 2011 - 9:30 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Anti-terror cooperation, incidents of firing on India’s eastern border and extradition of a top ULFA leader will top the agenda of a bilateral meeting on security between India and Bangladesh Wednesday.Home Secretary G.K. Pillai will lead the Indian delegation in Dhaka for the two-day summit with his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdus Sobhan Sikdar.
According to sources, India will press for early handing over of Arun Chetia, a jailed leader of the United Liberation Front of Asom, a militant outfit in Assam that has expressed it willingness to start a peace dialogue with the government.
India is expecting Chetia, who is in a Bangladesh prison, to take part in the peace process after ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa formally wrote to Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi expressing a desire to hold peace talks.
Chetia was arrested in Bangladesh in 1997 and has completed his sentence in Bangladesh.
The sources said the two sides will discuss how to improve a bilateral mechanism on intelligence sharing to check activities of terror outfits.
Bangladesh is expected to bring to the notice of the Indian delegation the firing incidents on the border.
Sikdar last week told the media in his country that “our main focus will be the non-stop killing of Bangladeshi citizens around the borders”.
India shares an over 4,000 km-long border with Bangladesh and has deployed Border Security Force personnel to check infiltration and smuggling of goods and illegal immigration from across the boundary.
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