Defence: India, Nepal to hold annual border talks from November 12
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Two months after young anti-corruption protesters—Generation Z—swiftly overthrew the highly unpopular pro-China Communist government in Nepal, led by disgraced Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Kathmandu and New Delhi will start their three-day annual border talks from Wednesday.
The next parliamentary elections in Nepal are expected to be held in March 2026.
The 9th annual coordination meeting will be held in New Delhi from November 12 to 14, an official statement said.
Chiefs of the border security forces of the two neighbours will discuss issues related to curbing trans-frontier crimes and sharing of real-time intelligence inputs, the media reported on Tuesday.
This will be the first time that the two forces—Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) of India and the Armed Police Force (APF) of Nepal—will have a top-level meeting after Gen. Z-led violent protests rocked Kathmandu and other Nepalese towns in September 2025.
The Indian side will be led by SSB Director-General (DG) Sanjay Singhal, while the Nepalese delegation is headed by APF Inspector-General (IG) Raju Aryal.
The bilateral deliberations are expected to lay “special emphasis” on developing effective mechanisms for joint prevention of trans-border crimes, establishing faster and more efficient channels for real-time information sharing and reinforcing coordinated border management practices to ensure peace and security along the Indo-Nepal frontier, the SSB statement said.
The last such meeting between the two forces was held in November 2024 at Kathmandu.
The SSB guards the 1,751-km-long unfenced border with Nepal. The force, that functions under the Union home ministry, also guards the 699-km-long India-Bhutan border.
