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Rohingya Muslims infiltration on agenda

Photo India-Bangladesh borderland Indian Express September 11, 2013   India will raise the issue of Rohingya Muslims illegally entering the country through Bangladesh when chiefs of border security forces of the two countries meet next week in Dhaka. A senior officer said this was the first time the BSF had included the issue in its agenda, though the problem is two years old. The agenda is prepared in consultation with the Ministry of External Affairs. BSF and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) will meet in Dhaka for bi-annual talks beginning September 14. The officer said 107 Rohingyas had been caught on the Bangladesh border along Nadia, Malda and North 24 Parganas in West Bengal in the past three months. They have been lodged in district jails. "In the past year alone, 30,000-40,000 Rohingyas have infiltrated the country using the Bangladesh transit. We will raise the issue emphatically with the BGB. All of them are using the Bangladesh route to enter