The 56th director general-level conference between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force will be held from August 25 to August 28 at the BGB headquarters in Dhaka.
The incidents of border killings and push-ins by the Indian security forces are expected to be high on the agenda.
A high-level BSF delegation led by its director general is expected to take part in the conference, said a BGB press release on Sunday.
In the four-day conference, different cross-border crime issues, including border killings, push-ins, and illegal intrusion, smuggling drugs, arms and ammunitions and others from India are likely to be discussed.
The other issues would include implementing development activities inside the 150 yards adjacent to the international border, water聽 sharing, and the protection of embankments on trans-boundary rivers.
Besides, joint initiatives to implement a coordinated border management plan, reduce border tensions over recent anti-Bangladesh propaganda by the Indian media outlets, and bilateral issues, among, others, would also feature in the discussion.
Expressing concern over the killing of Bangladeshis along Indian border in the 55th DG-level conference of the two border forces in February 17鈥�20 in New Delhi, BGB DG Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui urged his counterpart Daljit Singh Chawdhary to bring the border killing to zero, according to the BGB-BSF joint press statement.
Contrarily, border killings have been on the rise despite repeated promises by the Indian government and the BSF to bring the number down to zeroAt least 34 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF by either being shot or being tortured in the first year of the interim government鈥檚 tenure, while the figure was 30 in 2024 and 31 in 2023, according to rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data.
Border killings by the BSF happened every month except November in 2024 since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising in the year, when she fled to India, statistics show.
Meanwhile, the BSF and the Indian Navy have pushed 2,055 people, including 173 Rohingyas and Indian nationals, into Bangladesh since May 7.
Among the Rohingyas pushed by the Indian BSF, 50 are registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India.
Apart from border killings and push-ins, there have also been incidents of crude bomb explosions, firing sound grenades, flying drones, and opening fire along border areas in Bangladesh and India following the past year鈥檚 August 5 political changeover, according to BGB officials.
According to Bangladesh authorities, Bangladesh has 4,156 kilometres of border with India, of which some 180 kilometres fall on different water bodies and 79 kilometres on the Sundarban.
