Every misdeed will be avenged in befitting manner, asserts border force DG
BSF Director General KK Sharma on Friday said Pakistan has turned more “aggressive” on the border under the Imran Khan-led Government, and it has vacated areas along the border fearing retaliation from India.
On the recent brutal killing of BSF jawan Narender Singh on the International Border, the outgoing BSF chief asserted the paramilitary force has reserved the right to retaliate at “time and place of its choosing” and a befitting reply would be given to the adversary.
“In the near future, we (BSF) will do something,” Sharma said, adding all precautions are being taken to check repeat of such incidents.
“Pakistan’s official policy is to push terrorists inside India as part of Zia-ul-Haque’s doctrine of bleeding India through thousand cuts. Our jawans patrol the border despite risk of sniping and ceasefire violation from across the border,” Sharma said.
Sharma said, Singh’s body was retrieved from the Pakistani side after the BSF searched the area with permission from the Pakistan Rangers. Singh’s feet were tied, three bullet injuries were there on his chest and his throat was slit. Reports of mutilations were exaggerated, he said.
The BSF is taking all acts of sniping and ceasefire violations seriously and every misdeed will be avenged in a befitting manner. Pakistan remains in denial mode as usual, he further said.
The jawan was killed by the Border Action Team (BAT) of the Pakistan Rangers when a BSF team was clearing elephant grass along the border.
India has avenged the killing of the jawan on the Line of Control (LoC), the DG said without elaborating.
Fearing retribution and heavy mortar firing by the BSF, Pakistan is on an alert mode. An area of five kilometres from the zero line along the border has been cleared by the Pakistani side.
Sharma is retiring from service by the month-end after serving a tenure of two years and seven months as the chief of the border guarding paramilitary force.
On a question of presence of Chinese troops along the border and the LoC, Sharma said, “We have not noticed the Chinese PLA along the border or the LoC. But yes, as part of the security component of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, there are reports of presence of Chinese PLA.
China also provides resources for the security of CPEC which is important in economic terms for both Pakistan and China, the BSF DG added.