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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. |
 | | The current regime in Bangladesh, moreover, is regarded as being much 'closer' to Pakistan than its predecessor, and the linkages between the Bangladesh Army and intelligence apparatus, on the one hand, and their Pakistani counterparts, on the other, are known to be strong, and growing stronger. |
 | | 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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