The quarterly co-ordination meeting between the border forces of Pakistan and India was held at the Wagah check-post on Wednesday. The meetings between the border forces of both sides are held alternatively on each other's soil, and this time it was Pakistan's turn.
Deputy Director General of Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) Brigadier Sakhi Marjan, along with Colonel Nasir Minhas, Colonel Adil Jahan, Lieutenant Colonel Tayyab and Lieutenant Colonel Abid from Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) represented Pakistan.
The Indian side was represented by DIG Border Security Force (BSF), Gurdarshan Singh, DIG BSF (second in-charge) P P Gupta and O P Sharma from the Narcotics Control Board, India.
The representatives of both sides shared views on matters related to infiltration, massive defence construction in border areas by India, joint patrolling, inadvertent crossings on either side of the border, smuggling, prisoners and welfare projects for the residents of border areas.
On this occasion, BSF DIG Gurdarshan Singh, who talked with media men for a very short time in response to a query about the Bab-e-Azadi, said that they had not yet chalked out the welfare project for border area inhabitants.
Singh avoided a direct response when asked how India could continue to allege infiltration and heroin smuggling from Pakistan, despite the fact that it had herself erected a barbed fence on the border and was guarding it.
To another question about the massive smuggling of Indian wine into Lahore and other areas of Pakistan, Singh again hedged the issue. At the end, both sides exchanged documents regarding minutes of the meeting.