BSF claims

One would have expected the BSF to doubly verify its claim of ULFA running commercial ventures in Dhaka topped off with maintenance of bank accounts, before making such claims ad nauseum in public.

The fact that every year we are handed down a list of Indian insurgent camps in Bangladesh has obviously become a source of big embarrassment. And, we wonder what benefits could accrue in terms of bilateral goodwill from such unsubstantiated claims by Indian politicians and government functionaries. It would have been much better had proper channels been used to address the 'concerns' rather than going public with claims that can only detract from good bilateral relations which top Indian leaders have been stressing the need for from time to time.

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