STATE TIMES NEWS
Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has put in place its winter strategy along the International Border (IB) on the Jammu frontier to foil cross-border infiltration and said the number of incidents of drone-dropping of weapons, explosives and narcotics from Pakistan has decreased in the last three-four months.
Inspector General of the border-guarding force D K Boora told reporters here that the number of incidents of drone droppings from Pakistan has gone down substantially along the IB on the Jammu frontier.
Infiltration bids foiled along IB in Jammu, intruder killed
Jammu: The BSF foiled two infiltration bids along the International Border (IB) in Jammu frontier early Tuesday, killing an intruder and arresting another, officials said.
“At about 2.30 am today, alert BSF troops noticed suspicious movement of an intruder near the International Border in Arnia sector (of R S Pura area). The intruder crossed over to the Indian side from IB and started moving towards the fence”, Inspector General of BSF, Jammu Frontier, D K Boora told reporters at the force headquarters here. He said troops warned the intruder many times not to move forward but he didn’t pay any heed and kept aggressively moving toward the fence. “On this, BSF troops fired and neutralised the intruder and thwarted the infiltration attempt”, he said. In the second incident, BSF troops observed suspicious movement along the IB in Indreshwar Nagar around 4.30 am.
“In this case, when the intruder tried to cross IB and come near the border fence, he was challenged. He raised his hands to surrender and was nabbed”, he said.
Both incidents shows that attempts to engineer infiltration from across the border are on, he said. “They keep trying to see whether terrorists can be penetrated through into Indian territory by sending guides from across the border…But we will not allow any infiltration to take place”, he said. Boora said the BSF is committed to safeguard the borders and will defeat the designs of the enemy to commit terror activities in the country.
“I will not be able to disclose to the media what measures have been taken in this regard, but several such measures have been taken,” he said.
The IG asserted that with the help of technology, the force will put an end to to this menace.
Pakistan national held in Samba, repatriated
Jammu: A Pakistani intruder was repatriated to his country within hours of his arrest by Border Security Force (BSF) along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, an official said.
The intruder was repatriated at a flag meeting between BSF and Pakistan Rangers in Ramgarh sector this afternoon, the official said. He said Shahzad, a resident of Rangoor village in Pakistan, was arrested in the early hours of the day by the alert BSF when he tried to cross the border fence into this side. The questioning of the arrested person revealed that he is mentally retarded, the official said. The Pakistan Rangers confirmed that the arrested person is mentally unfit and accordingly a flag meeting was held and he was handed over to them after completion of necessary formalities, the official said.
“The BSF is alert on the border…. Those involved in this have been arrested by police,” he said.
Asked whether terrorists would now focus on infiltrating through the IB in view of the snowfall along the Line of Control (LoC), Boora said, “It is a yearly affair. When the passes get closed due to snowfall, the focus moves towards the IB. We are fully prepared for this.”
He said the BSF is also prepared for the challenge posed by fog during winter.
“The way manpower has been developed on the border, along with security and surveillance gadgets, we are confident that we will not allow cross-border infiltration,” the IG said.
He also said an anti-tunneling exercise is on and the force has got gadgets that will help it detect tunnels or any attempt to dig tunnels. The officer said peace is prevailing along the border with Pakistan for a long period. “For a long period, there has been peace on the border (in Jammu). There are no reports of any untoward incident,” he said. The IG also said the force has got the full support of police and intelligence agencies. A Pakistani intruder was killed and another arrested as the BSF foiled their separate infiltration attempts from across the IB. The infiltration attempts were scuttled by alert troops in the Arnia sector of Jammu and the Ramgarh sector of Samba district in the early hours.
