The four-day director general-level talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force will be held in New Delhi from June 8 to June 11.
Killing of Bangladeshis along border by the BSF, pushing people into Bangladesh unlawfully, and repatriating illegal migrants would be high on the agenda in the talks, according to BGB headquarters officials.
‘Alongside border killings, push-ins, and the repatriation of illegal migrants, the BGB will press the BSF afresh that no structures should be built in the 150 yards in the no-man’s-land,’ said a BGB headquarters official seeking not to be named.
BGB DG Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui will lead the Bangladeshi delegation while BGF DG Praveen Kumar will lead the Indian counterpart in the forthcoming meeting.
BGB headquarters deputy director general (Media) Colonel Abul Hasnat Mohamamd Mahmud Azam said that the conference would be held from June 8 to June 11 in New Delhi, India.
‘Border killings would be our top agenda. We will strongly press the Indian counterpart not to construct any structure in the 150 yards in the no-man’s-land violating international laws,’ Abul Hasnat told New Age.
He said that the BGB would issue a press release soon detailing the agenda for the forthcoming DG-level dialogue.
The BGB-BSF DG-level conference is being held twice annually, once in New Delhi and the other in Dhaka.
In the concluding day of the 56th director general-level border conference at the BGB Pilkhana headquarters in the capital Dhaka on August 28, 2025, the BSF had once again promised to bring down the border killing to zero by adopting extra precautionary measures while the BGB renewed its call for an end to such violence against Bangladeshi nationals on the frontier.
The BGB had also protested over the push-ins of people through the border by the BSF.
Despite repeated pledges by the neighbouring country to bring the number of border killings down to nil, the killing of Bangladeshis by the BSF and Indian citizens along the border in 2025 marked the highest level in the past five years.
According to human rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra’s yearly human rights report, 34 Bangladeshis were killed by the BSF in 2025. Of them, 24 were killed in BSF firing and 10 others died after facing physical torture by the BSF.
The ASK data also show that the number of border killings was 30 in 2024, 31 in 2023, 23 in 2022, and 18 in 2021.
Besides killings by the BSF, the Indian nationals, mostly Khasiyas, also killed at least 12 Bangladeshis along the border with India in Sylhet Division in 2025, according to reports published by New Age.
Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometre-long international border, the fifth-longest land border in the world, comprising 262km with the Indian state of Assam, 856km with Tripura, 318km with Mizoram, 443km with Meghalaya, and 2,217km with West Bengal.
