Source: http://www.amadershomoy.com/content/2009/12/31/news0355.htm
Indian HC Remark
Sahara faces cabinet music
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> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Isha Khan bd_mailer@... wrote:
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> From: Isha Khan bd_mailer@...
> Subject: Sahara has no knowledge of extra Indian mission forces
> To: "Dhaka Mails" dhakamails@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 4:25 PM
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> Dhaka, Dec 28 (bdnews24.com) â€" Home minister Sahara Khatun on Monday said she did not know anything about the presence of 'Indian forces' brought to provide extra security to the Indian High Commission premises in Dhaka.
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> Responding to queries from the reporters the minister said, "I have heard this for the first time from you. My ministry is not aware about this."
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> Home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told bdnews24.com that If India wanted to send any state troops to Dhaka for security purposes a bilateral discussion should have been held. But no such discussions were held between Dhaka and Delhi.
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> The High Commission might have brought private security men from India, he said. "But I don't know."
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> Responding to a query, Sikder said, the Indian high commission claimed a security threat about a month ago. "Since then, security has been tightened at each of the foreign missions."
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> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Zoglul Husain zoglul@... wrote:
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> The Press Trust of India (PTI) report of 17 December 2009 was as follows:
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> Indian mission in Dhaka to be guarded by SSB troops
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> New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Facing threat from terror group Laskhar-e-Taiba, India will soon deploy its para-military troops to guard it's mission in Dhaka.
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> At least 50 specially-trained troops of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a force that guards Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bhutan borders, will soon be sent to guard the High Commission after getting a clearance from External Affairs Ministry.
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> The personnel have been trained in VIP, mobile and static security duties and would also render technical support responsibilities, official sources said.
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> The troops will be sent soon and an assessment report is being prepared for their deployment, they said, adding SSB personnel will be in addition to the security men provided by Bangladesh government.Â
> http://www.ptinews.com/news/428467_Indian-mission-in-Dhaka-to-be-guarded-by-SSB-troops
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> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009
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> India did not officially inform Bangladesh of a reported move to deploy its own forces for the safety and security of its high commission premises and diplomats in Dhaka.
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> ‘India, as far as I know, has not expressed its intent to man the high commission premises with its own security personnel,’ the foreign secretary, Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, told reporters on Monday when his attention was called to the concerns expressed by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Khandaker Delwar Hossain, against the deployment of Indian forces for the security of its mission in Dhaka.
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> ‘Foreign missions in any country are a sovereign and independent territory. But a foreign mission can take its security measures, including the deployment of special forces, only if it is not restricted by the laws of the host country,’ he said.
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> ‘The responsibility for the security of Bangladesh missions abroad lies with us. But we need to make a balance between the laws of the host country and protect our rights to internal and external security of our missions,’ he said.
>    The foreign secretary was speaking at the ministry after launching of the web site of the Diplomatic Correspondents’ Association Bangladesh (www.dcabdhk.com).
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> Several newspapers reported that India would deploy a 50-member team of special security forces to increase protection of its high commission in Dhaka.
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> http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/28/front.html
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