Dhaka, March 3 -- Despite recent high-level discussions between the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), tensions along the Bangladesh-India border remain unresolved.
Under the interim government of Bangladesh, there has been a continued rise in border incidents, including fatalities and the unauthorised installation of barbed wire fencing by the BSF, further straining bilateral relations.
On Friday night, BSF resumed the construction of barbed wire fences and iron poles near the zero line at the Dahagram border in Lalmonirhat. The work began late at night, but BGB intervened, halting the construction, according to BGB and local sources.
Local residents reported that BSF had enlisted Indian civilians ...