NEW DELHI: Army chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag is on a two-day visit to Bangladesh to boost bilateral military cooperation, which comes close after PM Narendra Modi visited Dhaka to seal the historic land boundary agreement as well as 22 pacts to boost economic, trade and transport links.

Gen Suhag will hold talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan and chief-designate Lt Gen Abu Belal Mohammad Shafiul Huq, among others, apart from reviewing the passing out parade at the country’s military academy in Chittagong.

Seeking closer cooperation on the counter-terrorism front, the Indian armed forces are working to “build capacity’’ of the Bangladesh military, ranging from training and exercises to military supplies and technology. Bangladesh is another country in India’s neighbourhood where China has made some strategic inroads over the last several years.

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India has also been holding direct army-to-army staff talks with Bangladesh since 2009 to chalk out the cooperation between the two forces in the years ahead. The importance of the talks can be gauged from the fact that India has similar staff talks with just a handful of countries, which include the US, the UK, Israel, France, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.