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Indo-Bangla talks: India to seek action against HuJI militants
Anisur Rahman
Dhaka, Aug 29 (PTI) India is expected to demand from Dhaka action against Bangladeshi nationals involved in terror acts in its territory and deportation of the northeast insurgents from this country during the two-day Home Secretary-level talks beginning here Saturday.
Indian Home secretary Madhukar Gupta arrived here Friday
afternoon for the annual meeting with his Bangladeshi
counterpart Abdul Karim, a month after the Foreign Secretaries
of the two countries met in New Delhi.
He was received at the airport by the officials from the
Indian High Commission officials and the Bangladesh Home
Ministry.
"The talks between India's Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta
and our Home Secretary Abdul Karim are expected to be
dominated by security and other cross-border issues which
concern both the neighbours," a Bangladeshi Home Ministry
spokesman told P.T.I.
During the deliberations, New Delhi is likely to give
Dhaka evidence on the involvement of Bangladesh-based outfits
like HuJI and its nationals in terror acts, including
Hyderabad blasts, and seek action against them.
Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty said
the two officials are likely to discuss an earlier New Delhi
proposal for signing an extradition treaty to exchange
fugitive "criminals" hiding in each others territory.
"The talks are also expected to explore ways for
increased cooperation to counter terrorism and develop a legal
framework for exchange of fugitive criminals," the envoy said.
Home ministry officials here said they were scrutinising
the Indian proposal for signing of the extradition treaty but
the governments have already exchanged a number of wanted
criminals with the mutual cooperation of police and border
guards even in the absence of the treaty.
Bangladesh has maintained that such a treaty should be
there in all member states of of South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (SAARC), whose recent summit in Colombo
signed an agreement on mutual legal cooperation and
counter-terrorism, covering the extradition issue.
During the talks, India is also likely to demand
repatriation of U.L.F.A. leaders Paresh Barua, Anup Chetia and
Arabinda Rajkhowa Barua has completed his jail term in
Bangladesh after his arrest several years ago.
Paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (B.D.R.) and Border
Security Force (B.S.F.) of India last week exchanged lists of
fugitive "terrorists and criminals" as chiefs of the two
frontier guards held a four-day biannual meeting here.
Bangladesh handed over an updated list of 1,648
Bangladeshi criminals who, it claimed, were hiding in India,
while the Indian side gave a list of 464 Indian criminals.
The Home Ministry officials here said Dhaka would also
press for the implementation of the 1974 Mujib-Indira Land
Boundary Agreement, which Bangladesh ratified in 1974.
Dhaka has since then demanded the ratification by New
Delhi of the agreement for exchanging enclaves and land in
areas of adverse possession. PTI AR
KNO
Dhaka, Aug 29 (PTI) India is expected to demand from Dhaka action against Bangladeshi nationals involved in terror acts in its territory and deportation of the northeast insurgents from this country during the two-day Home Secretary-level talks beginning here Saturday.
Indian Home secretary Madhukar Gupta arrived here Friday
afternoon for the annual meeting with his Bangladeshi
counterpart Abdul Karim, a month after the Foreign Secretaries
of the two countries met in New Delhi.
He was received at the airport by the officials from the
Indian High Commission officials and the Bangladesh Home
Ministry.
"The talks between India's Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta
and our Home Secretary Abdul Karim are expected to be
dominated by security and other cross-border issues which
concern both the neighbours," a Bangladeshi Home Ministry
spokesman told P.T.I.
During the deliberations, New Delhi is likely to give
Dhaka evidence on the involvement of Bangladesh-based outfits
like HuJI and its nationals in terror acts, including
Hyderabad blasts, and seek action against them.
Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty said
the two officials are likely to discuss an earlier New Delhi
proposal for signing an extradition treaty to exchange
fugitive "criminals" hiding in each others territory.
"The talks are also expected to explore ways for
increased cooperation to counter terrorism and develop a legal
framework for exchange of fugitive criminals," the envoy said.
Home ministry officials here said they were scrutinising
the Indian proposal for signing of the extradition treaty but
the governments have already exchanged a number of wanted
criminals with the mutual cooperation of police and border
guards even in the absence of the treaty.
Bangladesh has maintained that such a treaty should be
there in all member states of of South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (SAARC), whose recent summit in Colombo
signed an agreement on mutual legal cooperation and
counter-terrorism, covering the extradition issue.
During the talks, India is also likely to demand
repatriation of U.L.F.A. leaders Paresh Barua, Anup Chetia and
Arabinda Rajkhowa Barua has completed his jail term in
Bangladesh after his arrest several years ago.
Paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (B.D.R.) and Border
Security Force (B.S.F.) of India last week exchanged lists of
fugitive "terrorists and criminals" as chiefs of the two
frontier guards held a four-day biannual meeting here.
Bangladesh handed over an updated list of 1,648
Bangladeshi criminals who, it claimed, were hiding in India,
while the Indian side gave a list of 464 Indian criminals.
The Home Ministry officials here said Dhaka would also
press for the implementation of the 1974 Mujib-Indira Land
Boundary Agreement, which Bangladesh ratified in 1974.
Dhaka has since then demanded the ratification by New
Delhi of the agreement for exchanging enclaves and land in
areas of adverse possession. PTI AR
KNO
