Bharat must move to Zero Tolerance for Border Transgressions from Bangladesh

The 4,096.7-kilometre Indo-Bangladesh border has long been highly porous, and efforts by the Border Security Force (BSF) to curb border transgressions have always evoked protests from Bangladesh. 

Lately, such protests have grown shriller and more aggressive. The BSF’s punitive actions to curb smuggling or illegal infiltration by Bangladeshis into India have faced sharp condemnation not only from various organisations and civil society but also from Dhaka’s ruling establishment…….”