Army, BSF initiate troops mobilisation along LoC, International Border
26 Aug 2014 8:46 AM IST
It is one of the biggest mobilisation along the border in the last few years
An army soldier takes position during an encounter with the militants in Kupwara district on Monday. (Photo: PTI )
New Delhi: Following hectic deliberations between Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi, def-ence minister Arun Jaitley and Union home minister Rajnath Singh over the recent spate of ceasefire violations by Pakistan, both the Army and the BSF is said to have mobilised one of the biggest reinforcements along the LoC and the International Border respectively.
Sources said this was one of the biggest mobilisation by security forces along the border in the last few years as troops have been diverted from other parts of Jammu and Kashmir along the LoC and the border.
This, intelligence sources added, has also been necessitated due to the fact that Pakistani Rangers too have resorted to mobilisation of troops on the other side of the border.
The Pakistani border gua-rds, while extending ceasefire violations to Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday targeted as many as 40 Indian border outposts (BOPs) and 24 villages along the International Border (IB) in Jammu and Samba districts with small and medium arms and mortars, leaving three persons injured.
Officials said the BSF gave a “befitting reply” by responding strongly with equal calibre weapons, which resulted in a heavy exchange of fire continuing till 7 am. Pakistani officials, in their counter claim, said at least five people were severely injured on Monday in firing by the BSF along the working boundary (as the IB is called by Islamabad).
Meanwhile, an Armyman, Lance Naik Dhananjay Kumar, was killed in a firefight with militants in Lolab valley of frontier Kupwara district on Monday. This is the third fatality suffered by the Army in district in the past 48 hours, officials said.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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