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| Army to assist BSF in unearthing tunnels along LoC, IB | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 26: Army experts are to assist the BSF in the task of unearthing any Pakistani plan on construction of tunnel on the LoC and the IB in Jammu and Kashmir.
Official sources said that instructions for carrying out detailed surveillance on the entire IB and the LoC for finding out if the Pakistani agencies had constructed any more tunnels were issued following detection of a long tunnel which had been dug in the border belt of Samba sector.
Sources said that intelligence inputs received by the security agencies have revealed that agencies across the LoC and the IB were trying to build tunnels for facilitating militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons, to sneak into Jammu and Kashmir.
According to these sources, the idea of providing passage for militants through tunnels had been conceived by the Pakistani Army and the Rangers after they found that ingress of militants into Jammu and Kashmir had become quite difficult with the security grid and the border management having been upgraded by the Indian troops.
Government believes that sudden increase in the rate of ceasefire violations by the Pakistani troops and the Rangers was the result of the plan conceived by agencies across the LoC under which more tunnels were to be dug up for facilitating militants to cross into Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources said that the sudden increase in ceasefire violations is also the result of Pakistani Army authorities' plan to keep the Kashmir issue in focus. In support of their contention sources said that during the last seven months there were already 41 ceasefire violations as against 50 in the 2011 and 38 in 2010.
The repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan are being viewed by the Indian Army as their motive to provoke retaliation and keep the situation at the borders simmering. The fear in turn percolates among people living along the borders.
In the context of these developments both the Army and the BSF functionaries have been asked to initiate firm measures for foiling ingress plan and retaliate once the Indian security pickets and border villages came under fire from the Pakistani gunners. |
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