12-03-2007, 09:11 AM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Porous areas helping LeT-HuJI nexus
Intelligence reports with the Centre indicate that militant outfits are using Bangladesh territory for sneaking into India through the porous borders for carrying out subversive activities. Â
<b>"The emerging nexus between the Pakistan-based fundamentalist outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) with HuJI of Bangladesh and use of Bangladeshi nationals trained in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan for fomenting terrorist strikes in India is a matter of concern," said Director General of Border Security Force AK Mitra.</b>
The inputs also indicate that women are being involved in extremist movement of Bangladesh, Mitra said at the annual conference of the paramilitary force on Thursday.
The HuJI remains one of the key Bangladeshi outfits with linkages to militancy in North Eastern States and those with other fundamentalist organisations in other States, he said.
The BSF, that guards the India-Bangladesh border, has apprehended 11 militants while crossing from Bangladesh border in West Bengal till October this year, including Pakistani and Kashmiri militants from LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Bangladeshi militants of JMB group, he said.
Even as the emerging nexus between Pakistan-based outfits, LeT and JeM, with Bangladesh is a worrying trend, only 67 per cent of the 3,406 km of the India-Bangla border approved for fencing along India's eastern sector has been completed.
Work on another nine per cent of the India-Bangla border approved for fencing is in progress. The total length of the border with Bangladesh is 4,096 km, including 1,116 km of riverine border.
Floodlighting has, however, been sanctioned for 277 km and the same has been completed. Floodlighting is important for border management on the eastern borders as the vegetation is thick and night patrolling is difficult in its absence, he further said.
A proposal for enhanced floodlighting on the fenced India-Bangla border is pending with the Union Home Ministry.
Recently, the terrorists have been using Bangladesh for infiltrating into the country and the problem on the eastern border can be gauged from the fact that as many as 6,617 Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended by the BSF till October this year. The figure for illegal Bangladeshi migrants in 2006 stood at 9,679.
"The decrease in interception of illegal Bangladeshi migrants is due to the ongoing construction of border fencing, border road and erection of floodlighting along India-Bangladesh border," the DG said.
<b>Mitra, however, added, "the wide gaps between the fencing and large stretches of unfenced border further aggravate the task of border management.''</b>
During the India-Bangladesh border coordination meeting in Dhaka this year, a list of 141 camps of Indian insurgent groups was handed over to the authorities there. The total number of camps in 2006 was 176.
Some of the camps have been destroyed or have been shifted due to selective action by Bangladeshi security forces,'' he added.
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
Porous areas helping LeT-HuJI nexus
Intelligence reports with the Centre indicate that militant outfits are using Bangladesh territory for sneaking into India through the porous borders for carrying out subversive activities. Â
<b>"The emerging nexus between the Pakistan-based fundamentalist outfits like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) with HuJI of Bangladesh and use of Bangladeshi nationals trained in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan for fomenting terrorist strikes in India is a matter of concern," said Director General of Border Security Force AK Mitra.</b>
The inputs also indicate that women are being involved in extremist movement of Bangladesh, Mitra said at the annual conference of the paramilitary force on Thursday.
The HuJI remains one of the key Bangladeshi outfits with linkages to militancy in North Eastern States and those with other fundamentalist organisations in other States, he said.
The BSF, that guards the India-Bangladesh border, has apprehended 11 militants while crossing from Bangladesh border in West Bengal till October this year, including Pakistani and Kashmiri militants from LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Bangladeshi militants of JMB group, he said.
Even as the emerging nexus between Pakistan-based outfits, LeT and JeM, with Bangladesh is a worrying trend, only 67 per cent of the 3,406 km of the India-Bangla border approved for fencing along India's eastern sector has been completed.
Work on another nine per cent of the India-Bangla border approved for fencing is in progress. The total length of the border with Bangladesh is 4,096 km, including 1,116 km of riverine border.
Floodlighting has, however, been sanctioned for 277 km and the same has been completed. Floodlighting is important for border management on the eastern borders as the vegetation is thick and night patrolling is difficult in its absence, he further said.
A proposal for enhanced floodlighting on the fenced India-Bangla border is pending with the Union Home Ministry.
Recently, the terrorists have been using Bangladesh for infiltrating into the country and the problem on the eastern border can be gauged from the fact that as many as 6,617 Bangladeshi nationals were apprehended by the BSF till October this year. The figure for illegal Bangladeshi migrants in 2006 stood at 9,679.
"The decrease in interception of illegal Bangladeshi migrants is due to the ongoing construction of border fencing, border road and erection of floodlighting along India-Bangladesh border," the DG said.
<b>Mitra, however, added, "the wide gaps between the fencing and large stretches of unfenced border further aggravate the task of border management.''</b>
During the India-Bangladesh border coordination meeting in Dhaka this year, a list of 141 camps of Indian insurgent groups was handed over to the authorities there. The total number of camps in 2006 was 176.
Some of the camps have been destroyed or have been shifted due to selective action by Bangladeshi security forces,'' he added.
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