On February 27, Home Secretaries of India and Bangladesh held a virtual meeting and discussed early completion of pending fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border, reports The Hindu. Led by Indian Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla and his Bangladesh counterpart Senior Secretary, Public Security Division Mostafa Kamal Uddin, the 19th Home Secretary level talks between the two countries was held in the backdrop of ‘Mujib Barsho’and 50 years since the Bangladesh Liberation War. In the statement issued by Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), the Secretaries of both the countries attaching importance to bilateral relations, reiterated their commitment to further expand and strengthen mutual cooperation in the security and border related issues. . Both sides reaffirmed not to allow the territory of either country to be used for any activity inimical to each other’s interests and take joint action to address the menace of terrorism and extremism in an effective manner. Further, in the statement both sides agreed to further enhance the level of cooperation to prevent the smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and contraband.