Ahead of the beginning of peak monsoon season the Border Security Force (BSF) has redoubled strength of jawans at border outposts (BOPs) located close to the water bodies in order to prevent fresh infiltration bids by small groups of heavily armed terrorists.
BSF jawans deployed in the area have also increased their patrolling especially along the water bodies to detect any infiltration bids.
In the past heavily armed group of fidayeen have adopted this strategy of breaching the fence by taking water bodies route to sneak inside the Indian territory.
Following fresh Intelligence reports the entire security grid was alerted by the top brass of the police and army to maintain strict vigil along the border areas to foil any infiltration bid during the Amarnath yatra.
Thousands of pilgrims pass through the National Highway before reporting at Amarnath yatra base camp in Jammu.
Along the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway various socio-religious organisations have been running community kitchens for pilgrims to provide them refreshment and snacks.
Para-military forces and jawans of State police are deployed in large numbers to protect these camps. In addition army has stationed Quick Reaction Teams and casper vehicles along the Jammu-Pathankot National Highway to foil any terror strike.
Every year during monsoon season flash floods are reported along Basantar, Devak and Ujh rivers in Samba-Kathua sector due to which several low lying areas along the International border including forward BOP’s get affected. Similarly BSF jawans are also patrolling low lying areas along Chenab river in Akhnoor sector to foil infiltration bids from across the border.
To avert any mishap BSF along with civil authorities have been carrying out crucial task of strengthening embankments to prevent flooding of BOP’s in the area.
BSF spokesman in Jammu said, “Our jawans have been carrying out round the clock patrolling along the International border to foil any infiltration bid by Pakistan based terrorists”. He said during monsoon season we redouble the strength of jawans to make sure they remain alert and carry out round the clock patrolling in order to foil any infiltration bid at any time of the day.
“Our jawans and boats remain deployed for 24x7 patrolling duties along the water bodies in the forward areas”, BSF spokesman said.
Meanwhile, in fresh incident of ceasefire violation along the line of control a young woman hailing from Basooni village in Balakote sector of Poonch was injured after she was hit by splinters of mortar shells.
According to ground reports, unprovoked firing from the Paksitan side started in the wee hours of Friday.
Pak Army also targeted over half a dozen villages using long range mortars and automatic weapons.
According to local villagers in the area over half a dozen villages namely Shari, Panjani, Ramlutta, Sohala, koala, Baloni and Gold were targeted by the Pakistan army for over eight hours. Intermittent firing in the area was recorded till 12:30 pm.
The injured woman identified as Naseem Akhtar, w/o Gul Ahmad was rushed to nearby hospital in Rajouri where she was undergoing treatment for her splinter injuries.