India and Bangladesh on November 17 agreed to share information on militants. Home secretaries of the two neighbours concluded their talks reviewing internal security and other cross-border issues.

• India assured Bangladesh of providing information immediately if they get any information on militancy.
• They will eliminate terrorism and insurgency through bilateral understanding and intelligence sharing.
• The issue of Bangladeshi nationals being detained by Indian border forces was a major issue of the talks while both the countries have agreed to reduce such incidents to zero figure.

The cross-border drug smuggling was another major issue of the talks and being a non-narcotics producing country Bangladesh sought Indian cooperation in this regard. Officials familiar with the meeting said the Indian side earlier raised the issues of the influx of fake Indian currency, cattle smuggling, and illegal infiltration and sought Bangladesh’s cooperation to completely stop these.

What officials said??

• Official talks between the two home ministries come less than a week after extradition of separatist ULFA leader Anup Chetia from Bangladesh and subsequent deportation of one of Bangladesh’s most wanted criminals, Nur Hossain, from India.
• The officials said India thanked Bangladesh for deporting Chetia and asked for extradition of other Indian criminals from the country.

The two secretaries met a day after the Joint Working Group of Indian and Bangladesh home ministries reviewed internal security and cross-border issues. Both the delegations comprised representatives of the paramilitary border forces, police, customs and foreign offices of the two countries.