A team from the Mongolian border protection agency GABP is being trained by India’s Border Security Force (BSF).

A ten-member team, comprising officers from the rank of sergeant to that of lieutenant colonel of Mongolia’s General Authority for Border Protection (GABP), is being trained in the use of sniper weapons. The two-week training started on Tuesday.

Incidentally, both India and Mongolia share a border with China.

As per a 2014 agreement, India has assured the GABP of help with capacity building in areas of special operations, cyber security, computers and IT, weapons and tactics, bomb disposal and disaster management.