India, Nepal to sign extradition treaty

Shirish B Pradhan
Kathmandu/New Delhi, Nov 5 (PTI) India and Nepal will
sign an extradition treaty and are likely to formulate a
border security and management strategy during the Home
Secretary-level talks beginning in Kathmandu Friday.
Besides concluding another treaty on Mutual Legal
Assistance, the two-day meeting of the top security officers
will deliberate on real time exchange of information on
Maoists and coordination among border districts to tackle
drugs and fake currency smugglers, Home Ministry sources said
in New Delhi.
India will also seek Kathmandu's tough action against
those carrying out anti-India activities from the soil of the
Himalayan nation.
Indian Home Secretary G K Pillai arrived in Kathmandu
this evening to attend the bilateral security meeting with his
Nepalese counterpart Govinda Kusum.
The Indian delegation is likely to chalk out a strategy
with its eastern neighbour on issues relating to security and
management of 1,751-km-long porous border.
India had expressed concern over the growing problem of
circulation of fake currency notes through the border to Nepal
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal during his visit to New
Delhi in August.
India and Nepal had agreed on the need for more
cooperation between security forces of the two countries to
jointly tackle growing criminal activities along the
Nepal-India border. (More) PTI