12-18-2005, 01:15 AM
<b>India amassing troops on border with Bangladesh</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Kolkata, December 17, 2005|22:29 IST
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<b>India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a top official said.</b>
New Delhi decided to bolster its eastern border defences in September to crackdown on militants moving in from Bangladesh, although Dhaka denies anti-India elements are using its soil.
In recent weeks, Bangladesh has been rocked by a series of bomb blasts believed to be carried out by radicals seeking to make the Muslim-majority democracy an Islamic state.
This is a worry for India as well, officials said.
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"We are seriously concerned about the situation in Bangladesh as it is potentially dangerous for us,"</b> Damodar Sarangi, additional-director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), told the agency in an interview this week.
<b>"Along with illegal trespassers come radical ideologies ... It does not help to have a troubled neighbour. We are alive to the problem."</b>
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WHats going on? Suddenly govt. woke up from deep sleep???
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<b>India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a top official said.</b>
New Delhi decided to bolster its eastern border defences in September to crackdown on militants moving in from Bangladesh, although Dhaka denies anti-India elements are using its soil.
In recent weeks, Bangladesh has been rocked by a series of bomb blasts believed to be carried out by radicals seeking to make the Muslim-majority democracy an Islamic state.
This is a worry for India as well, officials said.
<b>
"We are seriously concerned about the situation in Bangladesh as it is potentially dangerous for us,"</b> Damodar Sarangi, additional-director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), told the agency in an interview this week.
<b>"Along with illegal trespassers come radical ideologies ... It does not help to have a troubled neighbour. We are alive to the problem."</b>
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WHats going on? Suddenly govt. woke up from deep sleep???