BGB urges "Don’t enter India to bring cattle"

With an existing curb in the supply of cattle from India, Border Guard Bangladesh today requested Bangladeshis not to enter India to bring cattle.

The request came from BGB Director General Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed days after he returned from the biannual meeting with Indian border troopers.

With Eid-ul-Azha just more than a month away, Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has said they want a complete stop to cross-border “smuggling” of cattle.

Last week, BSF Director General Devendra Pathak said that it was because of their “stern moves” that the “smuggling” of cattle reduced by about 75 percent.

It was in this purview that the BGB chief requested Bangladeshi nationals to stay off from Indian land. He also said he will “look into the matter” of the border killings taking place recently.

This year, at least 26 Bangladeshi nationals were killed along the borders across Bangladesh in the past seven months, the BGB official said. Last year, the border killings amounted to 41.

He was briefing reporters at Border Guard Bangladesh headquarters this afternoon on the biannual meeting that took place in India’s New Delhi last week.