Dhaka, June 17 -- The government has taken an initiative to install barbed-wire fencing along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to prevent criminal activities, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said.

On Wednesday, he also told parliament that similar fencing along the Bangladesh-India border is under consideration.

Salahuddin spoke of the development while responding to a question from Pabna-5 MP Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas during a parliament session led by Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad.

The minister said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is taking "coordinated" steps to safeguard national interests and reduce cross-border crime to "zero".

He added that the BGB is maintaining a "zero tolerance" policy against the smuggling of yaba, crystal...