India and Bangladesh have agreed to joint patrols to stem illegal trade and immigration on their international border and ease tension between security forces after recent clashes, an official said Sunday. An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) official said the decision for "co-ordinated patrolling" by frontier guards of both countries in India's north-east was agreed to after a meeting with Bangladesh officials at Tamabil, a border town in the north-eastern state of Meghalaya. "It has been decided that BSF and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers will henceforth carry out joint patrols in the border areas," the senior BSF commander, who did not wish to be identified, told AFP by telephone from Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya state.
Security officials in insurgency-hit regions like the north-east customarily do not wish to be identified for their own protection.
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