The Border Security Force has foiled an infiltration bid along the international border in the RS Pura sector of Jammu and recovered a cache of weapons.
The Border Security Force (BSF) has lodged a protest with Pakistan Rangers over unprovoked cross-border firing at a forward post in Arnia sector along the Indo-Pak border, in which a BSF jawan and a woman were injured, officials said on Saturday.
Senior sources in the security forces said the entire issue started in the area a few days ago when a BSF soldier was fired upon by Pakistani troops while he was carrying out repairs near the border fence on the international border fence there.
"Pak Rangers resorted to Mortar shelling which was countered by BSF with appropriate response. Intermittent firing continued till 3 a.m.," said the BSF, which is mandated to guard the 3,323 km India-Pakistan border.
"There was a lot of firing by Pakistan overnight. No person was injured but houses were damaged. This kind of firing from the Pakistani side has been witnessed after almost six years. Our security forces retaliated to the firing," Dev Raj Chowdhary, Sarpanch, at border village Bulleh Chak in
Border Security Force personnel said an 'explosion' on Thursday late evening, barely hours after the Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing on the BSF troops on the International Border in the RS Pura sector.
Border Security Force Jawans said on Thursday evening that Pakistani troops started unprovoked firing on BSF troops at the International Border in violation of the ceasefire in the RS Pura sector.
An intruder was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the international border in the Arnia sector of RS Pura in Jammu and Kashmir, said BSF officials on Monday.
In a noble effort to provide access to quality education for every child and uplift the rural border villages of RS Pura and Suchetgarh in Jammu and Kashmir, founder chairperson of NGO ‘Support’, Dr Navneet Kour, and chairman of POJK Displaced People Front Vinod Kumar, joined hands to conduc
Varuna Anand, Chairperson, FICCI, FlO, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, told ANI a 2-day camp has been organised here in RS Puram town in collaboration with the Border Security force and the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, Jammu University.