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India and Bangladesh discuss 'pasha' enclaves

2012-07-26 9 Dailymotion

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is starting a two-day visit to neighbouring Bangladesh.<br /><br />One of the main areas of discussion will be about the hundreds of landlocked islands which are cut off from both governments along the 4,000km border.<br /><br />The enclaves were created hundreds of years ago when this region was just one territory. Local landlords and kings would play a game called pasha that is still played today.<br /><br />The landowners would bet a bit of their land over the game, and whoever lost the game would have to give a bit of their land away to the winner, and this is how these enclaves were created.<br /><br />India has already agreed to recognise more than 111, while Bangladesh will acknowledge 51.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports from one Bangladeshi enclave inside India.

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