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| Bangla hard boyz operating in eastern India |
| 2006-04-02 |
| BSF director general AK Mitra has said the border force is facing a major challenge from Islamic terrorists from Bangladesh who are using eastern India to operate in different countries of the region. Mitra, making his first visit to the country's eastern frontiers after assuming office, told reporters here last night that Indian insurgents were also using Bangladeshi soil to conduct subversive activities in the country. Asked to comment on observations by defence experts that Bangladesh is emerging as "an exporter of global terrorism", Mitra said "the Islamic terrorists from Bangladesh have chosen a route through eastern India to enter into different countries. Our force is facing a major challenge to contain the menace." BSF director-general also said "the 4000-km long eastern border is porous. So we are alert and would increase strength of forces in the border and modernise it with sophisticated gadgets". He, however, added that although the Bangladesh government has recently taken some initiative against the fundamentalists in their country, "we have to remain alert about them". Conceding that a large number of madrasas have come up on both sides of the border and also on the Indo-Nepal border, Mitra said he had "no direct evidence they are using them as the factory for producing Islamic militancy". |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |