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Twenty-four Bangladeshis returned home through Cox s Bazar s Teknaf border today after serving jail for different terms in Myanmar.
Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) handed them over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) through a flag meeting between BGB and BGP in Maungdaw near Teknaf this morning, said Lt Col Foysal Hasan Khan, commanding officer of BGB battalion-2 in a press briefing at Tenknaf jetty ghat.
The returnees include 12 people from Teknaf, eight from Rangamati, three from Bandarban and one person from Rajshahi, our Cox s Correspondent reports, quoting the BGB official.
The last bilateral meeting was held in 2017.
Ahsanul briefed the media after the meeting.
The DNC had handed over such lists of clandestine labs to Myanmar several times before, but no visible action was taken at the time.
The DNC authorities, however, have expressed satisfaction over promises from Myanmar counterpart CCDAC.
During the briefing, DNC DG Ahsanul said they are quite optimistic about Myanmar s promises to curb yaba pills from coming into the country through the shared border. Myanmar s CCDAC informed us and also shared photos of operations and seizure of record numbers of narcotics, including yaba, in the last 11 months of the year. They are also fighting the enemy drugs and we are hopeful of positive outcomes of the promises, he said.
Bangladesh, Myanmar anti-drug authorities agree on joint border patrol
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Bangladesh and Myanmar anti-drug authorities agreed for joint border patrol and establishing liaison offices in a bid to stop yaba pill smuggling into Bangladesh from the neighbouring country.
The both authorities also promised for more intelligence sharing and vigilance in River Naf to check the smuggling. The decisions were made in virtual conference between Bangladesh s Department of Narcotic Control and Myanmar s Drug Enforcement Division (DED).
It was the fourth DG level talks between the two anti-drug authorities after a three-year interval.
Briefing reporters after the conference, DNC Director General Muhammed Ahsanul Jabbar said that Bangladesh emphasised on yaba pills smuggling issue in the conference and Myanmar authorities did not deny the smuggling into Bangladesh.