BGB chief Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui and BSF Director General Daljit Singh Chaudhary held a joint press conference in Dhaka on August 28, 2025. Photo: BGB HQ

By Newsman, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bangladesh and India signed a Joint Record of Discussions on August 28, concluding the four-day 56th Director-General level border conference in Dhaka. However, strong Bangladeshi complaints about lethal incidents along the frontier were the primary focus of the talks.

In a strongly worded statement, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) chief Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui voiced “deep concern” about indiscriminate shootings and the killings of innocent Bangladeshi nationals by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and Indian civilians along the border, an issue that repeatedly framed the agenda and the final communiqué.

The BGB also raised alarm over alleged illegal “push-ins” of Indian nationals and Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) into Bangladesh.

Incidentally, on August 27, the BSF pushed back three Bangladeshi nationals, including women and children, along with 13 Rohingyas, at the Kumarshail border in Barlekha upazila, Moulvibazar.

India’s BSF chief, Daljit Singh Chaudhary, told the conference that his force would adopt additional precautionary measures and intensify night patrols in vulnerable sectors. Both sides agreed to strengthen real-time information-sharing, joint awareness programs, and socio-economic initiatives aimed at reducing such incidents to zero.

The joint communiqué records mutual pledges on smuggling, riverbank protection, demarcation issues, and media restraint, and says both Director Generals remain committed to working together to preserve peace and stability along the 4,096-km border.