[Reader-list] Infiltration through Punjab worries BSF

[Yousuf]

A BSF jawan who had served both on Indo-Bangladesh as well as Indo-Pak border was once asked what difference did he find while serving on these 2 borders. His reply was: "we earn 300 rupees to help cross one animal (goat/cow) from India to Pakistan, and the same 300 to cross one human from Bangladesh to India. That's the only difference"





--- On Fri, 1/2/09, Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Taha Mehmood <2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Infiltration through Punjab worries BSF
> To: "reader-list at sarai.net" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 6:53 AM
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2116525.cms
> 
> Infiltration through Punjab worries BSF
> 7 Oct 2006, 2336 hrs IST, Vishwa Mohan, TNN
> 
> 
> 
>  NEW DELHI: Border Security Force (BSF) chief A K Mitra has
> expressed
> serious concern over the recent attempts by Pakistan-based
> terrorists to
> enter India through Rajasthan and Punjab sectors — the
> 'fenced border'
> stretch which did not report a single infiltration bid in
> the last 10 years.
> 
> Referring to incidents where BSF foiled attempts of
> terrorists to infiltrate
> into India last month, Mitra told TOI, "This is a
> matter of concern for us
> and we are taking it seriously".
> 
> He said it was not clear if the infiltration bids were
> one-off incidents or
> was the beginning of a trend. "We have sensitised all
> border outposts and
> asked our personnel to remain on high alert.
> 
> "The BSF, which is deployed on the entire western
> border along Jammu and
> Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, had to encounter
> the first such
> infiltration bid in Amritsar sector on September 14 when it
> killed two
> persons, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba militant.
> 
> The second incident was reported from Sherpura outpost in
> Sriganganagar
> district of Rajasthan on September 24 when the BSF killed
> three militants
> during a night-long gunfight.
> 
> The use of these low-key western sectors as infiltration
> points assumes
> significance as it underscores the fact that the level of
> infiltration
> through J&K may not be a reliable index of
> Pakistan's willingness to clamp
> down on jehadis crossing into India.
> 
> 
> Intelligence agencies point out that the past years have
> seen ISI
> increasingly using Bangladesh to push in terrorists. The
> use of Rajasthan
> and Punjab sectors, however, is sure to add to the worries
> of the
> security establishment.
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