Border Guards of Bangladesh (BGB)chief Major General Abul Hossain on Sunday paid homage to the BSFheroes of 1971 Indo-Pak War at Kilapara in western Meghalaya. The new BGB Director General arrived at Kilapara to payhomage to the martyrs, whose supreme sacrifice denied Pakistanthe strategic control over the Dalu-Tura road during theliberation War of Bangladesh, a BSF spokesperson said. The BGB chief also laid a wreath at the memorial.
Sacrifice made by late Mohammad Ashfaq who had desertedPakistani Air Force and joined the Mukti Bahini (liberationforce) was also remembered in presence of BSF MeghalayaFrontier chief IG PK Dubey. The names of nine BSF martyrs who laid their lives are engraved in golden letters on the War Memorial, which stands on the Indo-Bangladesh Border.
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