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Pak Rangers may raise hurdles in embankment project 11/26/2013 10:00:27 PM Jammu, Nov 26 : If past experience is any guide Pakistani Rangers may raise hurdles to the plan having been formed by the BSF for building a 10-metre high embankment on the IB in the Jammu sector. According to inputs from intelligence agencies, Pak Rangers may create difficulties for the BSF in raising the embankment on the pattern that was witnessed a decade ago when the Indian side raised a clay bund all along the IB. At that stage the Pakistani Rangers had opened fire on the Indian posts in protest against the rising of the clay Bund despite the fact that the Bund was being raised within the Indian Territory. Initially Pakistan objected to the raising of the Bund on the zero line. It wanted India to build the Bandh within 400 metres inside the Indian Territory. India slightly relented which caused major losses to farmers in the border villages because a chunk of their land fell on the other side of the Bund. Reports said that the BSF decided to build the embankment on the IB to secure border people from Pak mortar and gun fire as had been the case in recent days when the Pak troops resorted to repeated ceasefire violations. According to these reports the BSF is all set to raise a 10-metre high embankment along International Border in Jammu frontier to secure people living in border belts from Pakistan firing. "The embankment is being raised to secure people living along the (international) border and working close to the fence from falling victim to the firing from across the border at the time of tense situation. The embankment will be 135 feet wide and 10 meter high from Akhnoor sector to Kathua, covering three districts of Kathua, Samba and Jammu. The issue will be discussed with Pakistani Rangers also. The BSF in co-operation with the State Government; will acquire the land in 122 villages along the border in the three districts. Sources said that during the meeting with the Rangers the BSF will try to convince the Pak side that the basic purpose of the embankment was to secure border villages from any bullet hits during ceasefire violations by the Pak forces. The BSF will also convince the Rangers that the embankment will be raised on the Indian soil.(KIP)   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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