Bsf on high alert along international bo

Lily

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BSF ON HIGH ALERT ALONG INTERNATIONAL BORDER IN PUNJAB

Ferozepur March 7:
Following the dastardly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3, the Border Security Force (BSF) has been put on high alert along the 500-km-long international border in Punjab to thwart any attempt by anti-social elements from hostile neighbour Pakistan to create terror ahead of general elections beginning April 16.

Informing media about the same, ML Wasan, deputy inspector general (DIG), Ferozepur sector, said, "Vigil has been intensified in Ferozepur, Amritsar and Gurdaspur to foil any infiltration bid by terrorists from Pakistan aiming to disturb the poll atmosphere here." Reviewing security along the entire Indo-Pak border and expressing satisfaction over arrangements made, Wasan said, "Sufficient BSF personnel have been deployed on all sensitive and vulnerable points and fencing too has been checked to our satisfaction."

While at present 18 companies of the BSF have been pressed into service, sources said that nearly 200 more would be deployed in different parts of the country to ensure peaceful elections. Claiming that diversion of personnel for poll duty could lead to problems in day-to-day functioning, an officer, not wanting to be named, said, "Besides battalions, additional personnel from BSF training wing will also be deployed for poll-related activities, impacting work at a time when paramilitary force already faces acute manpower crunch."

Having suffered ravages of terrorist activities in the past, Punjab is reportedly still alive on the radar of terror outfits, apparently proven by intelligence inputs and recent hauls of huge arms and ammunition from here.
 
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