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BORDER TENSION

Dhaka, Delhi agree to thrash out strains

STAR REPORT
Amidst escalating border tension, Dhaka and New Delhi yesterday agreed to maintain friendship and good neighbourly relations by thrashing out strains.
A tense situation was prevailing in the northern frontier as the BSF
did not return the bodies of two Bangladeshis they killed on Sunday.
The Bangladesh Rifles resisted Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) who were erecting barbedwire fence in Lachharipara border of Khagrachhari.
Quoting Foreign Minister
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Morshed Khan, a UNB report says Bangladesh and India have agreed to maintain good neighbourly relations through constructive engagement.
The expression of intent came when Morshed had meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh separately in Jakarta on the sidelines of the just-concluded Afro-Asian Summit.
"Bangladesh is always committed to maintaining natural friendship and we both are working on that," Morshed told reporters at the foreign ministry yesterday.
Citing the Indian prime minister's desire, Morshed said the two foreign ministers are likely to sit together and take the steam out of the present irritants through negotiation.
Morshed, who led the Bangladesh delegation to the Afro-Asian Summit, also apprised Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of his talks with Asian and African leaders at the meet.
Another UNB report from Khagrachhari says: Tension escalated in Lachharipara frontier of the district yesterday as the BDR resisted a BSF attempt to erect barbed-wire fence.
According to sources, over 100 Indian construction workers gathered within 150 yards of Lachharipara border point early yesterday with BSF troops marching nearby.
The Indian workers continued their work despite a request by the BDR to stop erecting the fence. They however stopped working when the BDR jawans started blowing whistles.
Earlier on Monday, the BSF men tried to construct fence within 150 yards of Ramgarh-Kashibari-Lacharipara border several times but failed facing resistance from the BDR.
Meanwhile, our correspondent from Rangpur reports: The BSF did not hand over the bodies of two Bangladeshi nationals to the BDR until yesterday afternoon.
BDR of Lalmonirhat Battalion-19, and Dinajpur Battalion-14 separately sent strong protest letters to the BSF demanding return of the bodies. The BDR also urged their counterpart to stop killing innocent Bangladeshi citizens.
An official of BDR Rangpur Sector yesterday told The Daily Star correspondent that Indian police picked up the two bodies for performing autopsy. The BSF would hand over the bodies to BDR after
autopsy, he hoped.
Uttam, a farmer of Chandrapur of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat district and Asraful of Faripur village in Thakurgoan district were shot dead by the BSF on Sunday, the BDR said.
The families and relatives of Uttam and Ashraful were passing days with anxieties since their bodies had been taken away by the Indian border guards.
The BDR and BSF kept tight vigil along the Lalmonirhat and Thukurgoan border following the killing of the two Bangladeshi nationals.