Asaduzzaman, Amit Shah discuss border management, security issues, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today held a meeting with his Indian counterpart Amit Shah here this afternoon when they discussed various aspects relating to border management and common security-related issues. The two home ministers held the meeting on the sidelines of ‘No Money for Terror’ (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, which began here today.
Asaduzzaman, Amit Shah discuss border management, security issues
“Both sides had productive exchanges on border management and common security-related issues,” the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs tweeted this evening after the meeting.
Additionally, according to sources in the Bangladesh delegation, the two home ministries also stressed the need to reduce border deaths to “zero” levels. The Indian side reaffirmed that India will continue to cooperate for the peaceful repatriation of the Rohingya people, who were forcibly displaced from their homeland of Myanmar. Both home ministers expressed the hope that, in the future, they would stand by one another in times of need, just as they did in 1971 when the populations of the two nations joined forces to fight the Pakistani occupation forces.
Deputy High Commissioner Md Nural Islam, Minister (Consular) Selim Md. Jahangir, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Md Mustafizur Rahman, Joint Secretary of the Bangladesh Ministry of Home Affairs Abu Hena Mostafa Zaman, and others attended the meeting. In order to attend the third “No Money for Terror” (NMFT) Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, Asaduzzaman traveled here on Thursday for a three-day official visit. The two-day conference at the Taj Palace Hotel in this city was inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this morning.
The meeting is being attended by up to 450 delegates from 76 different nations to talk about financing terrorism and other relevant topics. The seminars today were attended by home ministers from 20 nations, including Bangladesh, the Russian Federation, France, Australia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
The conference “will provide a unique platform for participating nations to deliberate on the effectiveness of the current international regime on Counter Terrorist Financing and steps required to address emerging challenges,” according to the home minister of Bangladesh, who is leading a delegation of three people.
Discussions on “Global Trends in Terrorism and Terrorist Financing” and “Use of Formal and Informal Channels of Funds for Terrorism” were held in the first and second sessions of the conference’s first day today. Tomorrow’s sessions on “Emerging Technologies and Terrorist Financing” and “International Co-operation to Address Challenges in Combating Terrorist Financing” will be the third and fourth, respectively. In today’s second session, Bangladesh delivered a paper on “Terror financing through MTSS, Hawala/Hundi networks.” Abu Hena Mostafa Zaman, Joint Secretary Public Safety Division, delivered the presentation on behalf of Bangladesh.
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