New Delhi, May 12 -- Day after West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari chaired the first cabinet meeting and transferred land to the Border Security Force (BSF) for erecting a fence along the Bangladesh border, Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's foreign affairs adviser M Humayun Kabir said that barbed wires "do not intimidate" the country and its leadership.

"Bangladesh is not afraid of barbed wire. Where we need to talk, we will talk," a local Bangladesh online portal cited him Humayun Kabir as saying.

The Bangladesh prime minister's adviser also said that the Indian government "must demonstrate a more humane approach" in addressing the border issues. "We don't want to become involved in their internal politics. Our relatio...