Below is the quote from Ambassador Neelam Deo,
The recent violence is also causing alarm in neighboring India. Rising Islamist militancy threatens to spill across the porous border into the Indian state of West Bengal, according to Neelam Deo, a former Indian ambassador and director of the Gateway House policy research group in Mumbai.
“It’s a fake border,” she said. “There are no natural features there. It cuts through people’s fields, through villages.”
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Read Ambassador Deo’s thoughts on the Dhaka attacks here.