New Delhi, Apr 25: India will raise the issue of illegal immigration from Bangladesh and growing ISI activities in that country directed against it when heads of border forces of the two countries meet in Dhaka from Sunday. Other "issues of mutual concern" like trans-border crimes will also form part of the talks agenda during the five-day biennial conference of director generals of BSF and BDR," official sources said here today. The Indian side, to be led by BSF Director-General Ajai Raj Sharma and including officials from ministries of external affairs and home, will also seek to know from Bangladesh whether any progress had been made on its demand for closure of 99 terrorist training camps existing there, they said. During the last DG-level meeting in New Delhi in October, India had furnished a list of terrorist training camps with pin-point locations to Bangladesh and demanded their closure. Illegal immigration, a major cause of concern here, will be the main issue of discussion, particularly in the backdrop of a week-long border stand-off between the two countries after BSF tried to push back 213 Bangladeshi immigrants earlier this year.
Bangladesh has so far refused to accept India's contention that millions of its nationals were illegally staying in this country and is blocking efforts to deport them back.
"There is a difference in perception and efforts are on to sort it out," a source said. Bureau Report