Militants attacked a BSF camp near Srinagar airport in Jammu and Kashmir in early hours Tuesday.
The alarming expose comes a day after the BSF and Pakistani Rangers held talks at Suchetgarh and assured to take necessary measures to ensure peace and tranquillity along the international border
The tunnel was 14-feet long when it was detected by the alert troops. War-like store was recovered during the search of the tunnel indicating the presence of armed infiltrators who managed to flee back.
The 105-minute meeting was held on the request of Pakistan Rangers.
Muhammad Ramzan Parray was posted in adjacent Baramulla with 73 battalion of the BSF. He had come on leave on August 26 to finalise the renovation of his house.
Rameez Ahmed Parray was posted in Baramulla with 73 battalion of the BSF. He had come on leave on August 26 to finalise the renovation of his house.
Three family members of the jawan, who has been identified as Rameez Ahmad Parray, were also injured in the attack.
BSF Director General KK Sharma said that the Pakistani forces initiated firing around August 24-25 during which a BSF trooper lost his life. He added that the BSF retaliated by firing both flat trajectory and area weapons.
‘Operation Arjun’ is BSF’s counter-offensive on Pakistan’s repeated use of snipers to kill jawans, besides firing on civilians and shelling villages along the border, especially over the last one month
BSF has enhanced patrolling along 22 sensitive and vulnerable spots in West Bengal and is using local language skills as well as intel to check the influx of Rohingyas into the country.
It is also reported a large number of terrorists in PoK are waiting to infiltrate into Indian side, but Indian jawans have foiled their several attempts to cross the border.
The Border Security Force killed two Pakistani intruders along the India-Pakistan border on Wednesday when they refused to surrender while crossing over to Indian territory
BSF DG K K Sharma said India and Bangladesh have finished 95 per cent of the work on a new single-layer fence on the border
A senior BSF officer said the Pakistani army violated the ceasefire and targeted a jawan of the border guarding force, who was on duty at a post along the LoC, with sniper fire.
LeT has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The two border guarding forces, on July 17, had held a Commandant-level flag meeting in Samba sector along the IB and "committed" themselves to maintaining peace.
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