India & Bangladesh discuss the security issues
Security issues like border management, insurgency and terrorism figured prominently during the first day of the Home Secretary-level bilateral talks between India and Bangladesh.
Senior officials of both the governments and border security forces also discussed cross-border illegal migration from Bangladesh on the first day of the two-day talks.
The two countries also discussed the pending bilateral treaties on extradition, mutual assistance in legal matters, psychotropic and narcotic substances and consular access. The drafts of these treaties had already been given to Bangladesh Government at the last Home Secretary-level talks held in Dhaka on September 13-17.
At the last Home Secretary-level talks, both countries had agreed to work closely in security matters, saying that more effective border security was needed to prevent illegal movements.