LAHORE, Feb 7: A 10-member delegation of the Pakistan Rangers crossed the Wagah border into India on Tuesday for a quarterly meeting with the Border Security Force.

BSF deputy inspector-general Shri Harish Chaudhry Kashyap received the delegation, led by Col Ahmad Najeeb Khan.

Col Najeeb said the meeting was part of a mutually-agreed programme aimed at coordinating the steps being taken by the two forces for border management duties. He said the Pakistan delegation would discuss the points related to defence-oriented construction by India despite an agreement in the last meeting to maintain a status quo.

He said the delegation would discuss incidents concerning cross-border smuggling and illegal border crossing from Indian side into Pakistan. Other issues like drug trafficking, repatriation of inadvertent crosses and simultaneous coordinated patrolling would also come under discussion.

Harish Chaudhry Kashyap said India was engaged in defence construction on the international border and the working boundary according to the international rules.