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| | Bangladesh Assessment 2003 |
 | | Earlier on January 7, 2003, India's Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, during a conference of Chief Secretaries and Directors General of Police at Delhi, observed that there were approximately 15 million Bangladeshis staying illegally in India, and that they posed a serious threat to the country's internal security. |
 | | Speaking in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament), on November 27, 2002, India's External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, explicitly stated that the Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka had become the "nerve center" of ISI activities in promoting terrorism and insurgency in India. |
 | | Bangladesh continued to be a transit route for arms and narcotics trafficking and the country’s Home Minister, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, validated this while he was speaking at a national workshop on drug control in Mirpur in February 2002. |
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