Bangladesh would stand by India if Pakistan attacks it, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said Tuesday.
During a dialogue with reporters on Bangladesh India ties at the secretariat’s media centre, he was replying to the question what would be the stand of Bangladesh in the event of war breaking out between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue.
In 1971, he said, Bangladesh defeated Pakistan’s occupation army and now it cares little about what Pakistan says.
‘As we don’t share borders with Pakistan, we don’t care about their threats,’ he said.
Bangladesh will stand by India if it comes under attack, said the home minister.
He said India assured Bangladesh that it would provide all the support needed to fight extremists as it did during ‘our war of independence in 1971.’
Border-wise, Bangladesh is India’s biggest neighbour, sharing 4,156 km of land boundary.
Asked to comment about increased killings of unarmed Bangladeshis along the border by Indian Border Security Force despite India’s repeated assurances that the border killings by BSF would be brought down to zero, Asaduzzaman said Bangladesh always lodged protests against these killings.
He said that BSF’s excesses often resulted in the border killings.
He said that the governments in both the countries were sincere about bringing such incidents to zero.
Asked when Bangladesh’s suspected militants, who were recently arrested in India, would be brought back home, the minister said India did not officially inform Bangladesh about these arrests.
Organized by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters’ Forum, the dialogue was moderated by its president Shyamal Sarkar.
Source: New Age
BSF keep killing our men otherwise we have a very friendly relationship with India.
Thank you Sir. May you live for long to provide us with such jokes.