smuggling
Jul 19 2008, Rezwan

I have said it before that the illegal border trades and the involvement of the border security forces in the smuggling are the key causes for the India-Bangladesh border strifes. We have seen Indian border security forces (BSF) killing one Bangladeshi...

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