The foot soldiers of the Border Security Force (BSF) deployed along the International Border in Jammu frontier are facing the daunting task of plugging the vulnerable routes of infiltration especially due to the overflowing waterbodies.
Due to continuous rainfall in the plain areas of Jammu region for last one week, a large number of BSF posts, along the RS Pura and Samba sector of Jammu frontier, have been flooded with water. At some of the places even the barbed wire fence has been submerged under deep waters in low lying areas posing hardships to the jawans present on ground zero to maintain constant vigil.
The BSF authorities have already alerted commanding officers of local units against compromising with the routine patrolling amid fresh Intelligence reports of infiltration bids from across the border. Due to accumulation of large volumes of mud and uprooting of border pillars at some of the locations, the jawans have been facing difficulty in carrying out regular patrolling.
To ensure their survival in extreme climate conditions, the BSF authorities have already started repair work of bunkers and border posts. “We cannot afford to be complacent, especially, when Intelligence agencies have been regularly warning against fresh terror strikes by heavily armed infiltrators,” a senior BSF officer posted in Samba told The Pioneer.
According to Intelligence reports, several small groups of infiltrators have been camping across different launching pads to infiltrate the Indian territory via International Border. Reports prepared by the Central and local Intelligence agencies also suggested a possibility of increased infiltration bids along the International Border because mountain passes along the line of Control continue to remain covered with thick blanket of snow.
In the recent attacks on police stations, located along the International Border, the infiltrators have possibly infiltrated through the water bodies using floating tubes before launching audacious strikes on Army camps and police stations in Hiranagar, Kathua and Samba. To beef up the security grid, the local police, Army and paramilitary forces have set up additional naka points along the border villages to prevent any militant strike on security installations.