BSF keeping close watch on 69 LoC launching pads; eight terrorists neutralised in four infiltration attempts in 2025: IG Ashok Yadav

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 1 (ANI): BSF Inspector General (Kashmir Frontier) Ashok Yadav on Monday during the annual press conference said that security along the Line of Control (LoC) remained tight, with the Border Security Force monitoring all 69 active launching pads across the LoC, where an estimated 100 to 120 terrorists were waiting to infiltrate.
He added that the BSF, working with the Army, had neutralised eight terrorists in four infiltration attempts in 2025.
Yadav also said that the G Branch of the BSF had played a major role in providing intelligence on the movements and activities of terrorist groups and their cadres.
"Our G unit is keeping a close watch on all the 69 active launching pads along the LoC, where around 100-120 terrorists have been waiting to infiltrate," he said.
"BSF, in coordination with the army, neutralised 8 terrorists in 4 infiltration attempts made by them in the year 2025... The G Branch of BSF has also contributed immensely in providing important operational intelligence on movements and activities of terrorist groups and their cadres...Our G unit is keeping a close watch on all the 69 active launching pads along the LoC, where around 100-120 terrorists have been waiting to infiltrate. Simultaneously, various training camps of terrorists are also under scrutiny of our intelligence wing..." Yadav added.
During the annual press conference, Yadav also pointed out that the "most remarkable achievement" of the BSF in 2025-26 had been Operation Sindoor.
"The most remarkable achievement of BSF in 2025-26 has been Ops 'Sindoor', during which BSF units along with the Indian Army had effectively executed fire assaults on Pak posts and terrorist launching pads along the LoC... All BSF units of Kashmir Frontier, including its Artillery regiments, had carried out heavy and accurate shelling and firing on enemy posts and bunkers, causing huge casualties to Pak troops, heavy damage to their forward posts and complete destruction of some of the terrorists' launching pads along the LoC," he said.
He said that after the attack on tourists in Pahalgam, the BSF had deployed specialised counter-insurgency and counter-terror teams in Gulmarg.
"Following Pahalgam attack on tourists, specially trained BSF CI/CT teams have been deployed in the Gulmarg area for providing security to the tourists along with J&K Police," Yadav said. (ANI)