BSF lodges protest with Pak over crossborder firing

At a flag meeting with officers of Pakistan8217;s Chinab Rangers, BSF said it provided 8220;ground proofs8221; of infiltration attempts, firing of grenade launchers and rocket marks on the Indian side barely 350 meters from Pakistani post of Chota Chak.

Pakistani troops attempted to push in a group of armed militants into the Indian territory from the Chota Chak post by firing rockets and grenade launchers and opening indiscriminate fire with their automatic weapons on Durga and Naka 11 posts on Tuesday.

The ceasefire violation by Pakistan came less than three weeks after BSF and Pakistani Rangers decided at their two-day long biennial meeting at Lahore on October 16 to refrain from cross-border firing and shelling and to preserve the sanctity of the four-year-old ceasefire along Indo-Pak border.

BSF said this was the 36th ceasefire violation incident since January this year.

Balasubramaiam said, 8220;the incident has been viewed very seriously at the highest level and Pak Rangers have been warned accordingly.8221;

The ceasefire violation by Pakistan was aimed at infiltrating militants into Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt the forthcoming assembly elections in the state, BSF officers said.

BSF and army have beefed up security along the IB and LoC in the wake of intelligence inputs that militants were waiting to infiltrate into J-K, they said.