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| Additional troops may be moved to the border if ceasefire violations do not stop | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 21 (KIP): Indian Defence authorities are said to have decided to wait for Pak response and in case there was no improvement in the border situation additional troops may be moved to the LOC and the IB.
Official sources said that India is worried over the repeated ceasefire violations which had started forcing border people to shift to safer places. Government circles in Jammu treat the situation similar to the one that existed in the border villages in 1999 when several thousand families to shift to safer places.
Sources said that New Delhi had started losing its patience and the troops have been asked to upgrade the security grid on the border without opting for war. Senior army officials said that "We cannot sit idle in case Pakistani troops continue to pound villages and Indian border outposts."
They said that the security grid had already been strengthened on the LOC and the IB but in case the situation worsened owing to continued firing additional columns of troops could be moved to the entire border area to counter any any mischief from across the border.
Reports with the army authorities indicated that new launch pads had been established in various sectors on the LOC and the IB for facilitating ingress of militants into Jammu and Kashmir. As such troops have been told to ensure that infiltration of militants was checked at any cost.
These report said that in case Pak troops did not stop ceasefire violations civilians, living in the border villages, may be asked to shift to safer places so that the Army and the BSF had free hand in dealing with Pak forces.
The ceasefire had led to Islamabad Declaration in January 2004, in which Pakistan declared that it would not allow its territory or territory under its control (read Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) for any terrorist activity against India. There was jubilation all around.
Sweets were exchanged on the borders and the villagers returned to their abandoned houses. To their utter disbelief, there was complete silence. The usual rattling noise of the explosion of mortar shells and the bullets flying here and there were nowhere to be heard or seen.
They returned to their villages and tended their fields and new schools came up and children started going to schools. But this euphoria is lost and people in the border villages have been gripped by fears as they apprehend they may again get displaced and suffer as refugees in tented colonies. |
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