Bangladesh

September 2005 | Risk Summary

India and Bangladesh have agreed to defuse tension on their volatile border, by not undertaking any further construction near the frontier. Indian troops opened fire on Bangladeshi workers in mid-August to stop them building a river embankment close to the border, in the latest of a series of border skirmishes souring relations. However, the agreement to resolve the dispute could presage a warming of ties, especially coming alongside New Delhi's offer to help Dhaka hunt for Islamist terrorists who set off hundreds of bombs across the country.

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