Miles away from their families, jawans of the Border Security Force celebrated Lohri by dancing to the tunes of drums and guitars around bonfires and exchanging sweets with locals at the Forward Border Out Post in Suchetgarh, Jammu. Despite the high degree of alertness to block infiltration bids from across the border, jawans and officers of BSF immersed themselves in the Lohri celebrations at the Octerio-Suchetgarh forward border post along the International Border.
The move has been introduced to check any infiltration of terrorists in the wake of the Pathankot attack.
BSF personnel on Sunday shot dead a Pakistani intruder near the Indo-Pak border in Samba district.
The Centre has decided to construct 509 new Border Outposts (BOPs) and complete the unfinished barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangla international borders, a top official said on Tuesday.
Indian security agencies have learnt that Chinese troops are training Pakistan Army personnel right across the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir.
A 30-metre-long tunnel from Pakistan to the Indian side was today detected by the Border Security Force on the international border in the RS Pura sector of Jammu district.
Indian law-enforcement agencies are seizing an ever-increasing quantity of heroin from the Indo-Pak border indicating a rise in trafficking of contraband from its neighbouring nations through the country, a report said. According to the annual report of the International Narcotics Control Board released on Wednesday, the quantity of heroin entering India from Pakistan and Afghanistan has increased in the year 2007 than the previous years.
Tension along the Indo-Pakistan border may cast its shadow on the bilateral talks between the border guarding forces of the two countries scheduled to be held later this month in Lahore.
The home ministry has directed the Border Security Force to intensify vigil along the International Border in the wake of repeated attempts by terrorists to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir.
Describing the situation on the International Border, the Line of Control and the Actual Ground Position Line in Jammu and Kashmir as 'quiet,' the spokesman said: "If Pakistani troops resort to firing, then we will retaliate."
Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by resorting to brief firing on border outposts along the International Border.
Over one lakh people have migrated from their hamlets and border towns in the wake of firing by Pakistan.
Pakistan government repatriated 172 Indian fishermen and one civil prisoner on Monday.
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a protest over the ceasefire violations allegedly by India in which some Pakistan Rangers were killed.
In the frontier areas of Jammu district, the number of people staying in the safe camps has also dwindled as the people want to tend to their standing crops.
Singh also attributed the current crisis to the 'failure' of the previous government in guarding the state's borders.
Pakistani Rangers using 81 mm and 82 mm mortars have targeted 30 Border Outposts of the Border Security Force in Hiranagar, Kathua and Ramgarh sectors of Jammu and Kashmir.
Right infra-red and laser beam intrusion detection systems are "up and working" along as many vulnerable and sensitive areas of the international border in Punjab.
In continued ceasefire violations, Pakistani troops resorted to night-long firing and mortar shelling targeting six Border Out Posts along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu district, forcing the Border Security Force to retaliate effectively.
'The BSF and other forces will undertake a counter-action at a suitable time'
Violating the ceasefire yet again, Pakistani Rangers resorted to firing of mortar bombs on border out posts along the International Border in Jammu district.
As per reports, Pakistan has fired 3000-4000 mortar shells targeting Indian villages and border towns in which 12 people have been killed.
A suspected intruder was shot dead early Thursday by the Border Security Force along the Indo-Pak border in Pathankot where the force is on high alert following the January 2 terror attack on air force base.
Most villagers decided to stay back to harvest crops, their only source of livelihood.
India are set to face Pakistan in their opener of the World Cup on March 6
After nine days of heavy firing and mortar shelling from across the border, firing de-escalated along the 192-km long border in Jammu frontier overnight with Pakistan opening fire on four border out posts in Kathua district.
Over 40,000 villagers decided to leave their home along the India-Pakistan border
At present, there is no scheme to compensate victims of cross border firing.
With infiltration showing upward curve, the Jammu and Kashmir police has identified 21 major infiltration routes of militants along Indo-Pak border in the state. "We have surveyed and identified 21 major infiltration routes along Indo-Pak border...This will help security agencies to pin down infiltrating militants...," a senior police officer told PTI.
With the Indo-Pak dialogue in tatters and the respective armies exchanging fire across the Line of Control, an unexpected opportunity has presented itself for boosting trade between the two countries.
Stepping up its attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue, Pakistan has written to the UN chief on the security situation along the LoC and the International Border with India and sought the world body's intervention in resolving the issue.
NASA released a photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station which captures the India-Pakistan border in the nighttime.
Border Security Force has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers over ceasefire violation in forward areas of Poonch and Kathua districts along the Indo-Pak border, in which a BSF jawan and a civilian were injured.
Pakistan troops violated ceasefire four times since Tuesday night as it resorted to heavy firing and mortar shelling on forward posts along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the Indian forces to retaliate.
"The recent election in Pakistan, as well as the normalising of US-Pakistan relations, are necessary but not sufficient conditions for the regularising of India-Pakistan relations," noted American scholar Stephen P Cohen has said.
The sources said the Pakistani side, which spoke to the Border Security Force officials in the noon over phone, 'denied any hand' in the killing of Head Constable Narender Singh on September 18.
The BSF commanders initially thought that the jawan was killed by a sniper shot from across the border.
A villager was injured as Pakistani Army violated the ceasefire four times overnight by pounding civilian hamlets and posts with 120 mm and 82 mm mortar bombs along the International Border and the Line of Control and LoC in Jammu and Poonch districts, drawing retaliation from the Army and BSF.
The ceasefire along Indo-Pak border is working 'well' since February 2021 agreement, he asserted.
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