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| Ahead of winter season, CI agencies get busy to identify "loopholes" on borders | | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
JAMMU, Sept 2: At least two months ahead of the forthcoming winter season, counter-insurgency (CI) agencies have started the massive exercise of identifying loopholes on the IB and the LoC here.
Official sources said though the CI agencies and border troops were fully alert, the "highly- guarded" borders here were still porous at some places.
A massive exercise was in progress to find out the loopholes and plug them to bring the infiltration at zero level, the sources added.
Sources said the evident loopholes seemed to be the rivers and other water bodies, including nullahs, that flow across the borders into Pakistan. A constant vigil was being maintained around all these water bodies, the sources added.
Though the borders were fenced and there were adequate number of troops on them, every effort was being made to identify and plug the loopholes, sources said.
The 16 militants, who were killed by army at Kalakote in Rajouri in four gunbattles some time, too had infiltrated into the Indian territory from a nullah at Jogwan in Akhnoor.
Quoting intelligence inputs, sources said there were indications which suggested that the Pak-based militants would make attempts to enter India before the onset of winter season because once the passes were blocked by snow, it would be impossible to infiltrate.
Sources said the abrupt increase in incidents of firing on the borders in the past few days
was also an indication that the border Pak forces were trying to push militants into the state
under the cover of firing. A round-the-clock vigil was, however, being maintained to foil any
infiltration bid by the militants, the sources added.
Sources said night ambushes were also being laid by the troops on the traditional and newly
identified infiltration routes. Pakistan was desperate to infiltrate militants into J&K to keep the pot boiling but the troops were competent enough to foil their nefarious designs, the sources added. |
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