Bangladesh bigger worry than Pakistan: BSF chief

Bangladesh is emerging as a bigger worry than Pakistan, Director General of BSF R.S. Mooshahary said today. The BSF chief was talking to rep...

Bangladesh is emerging as a bigger worry than Pakistan, Director General of BSF R.S. Mooshahary said today. The BSF chief was talking to reporters here. BSF guards the 4,000-km-odd Indo-Bangla border and is also present along the LoC in the Indo-Pak border with the Army.

‘‘Bangladesh will soon pose a bigger problem than Pakistan,’’ Mooshahary said, adding that the Indo-Bangla border is more difficult to man than the Indo-Pak border. ‘‘At the Pakistan border, both the Army and BSF are deployed, whereas the Indo-Bangla border is manned solely by BSF.”

He also admitted that illegal migration into North-East is continuing and in order to address the issue of infiltration, BSF has sought to raise an additional battalion of women. ‘‘I’ve sought the Home Ministry’s permission to raise a women’s battalion to deal with infiltrators, many of whom are women,’’ he said.

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India is sure that there are about 172 terror camps operating in Bangladesh and that 307 ‘‘wanted-people’’, including top ULFA leaders Paresh Baruah and Arvind Rajkhowa, are in Bangladesh, he said, adding that “Dhaka has denied their presence without verifying the details given to them.”

“Although Bangladesh Rifles had recently cracked down on some terror camps, but we are yet to be briefed on the issue so far,” he said.