‘Intruder’ shot dead by BSF along Indo-Pak border in Pathankot

The intrusion comes weeks after suspected Pakistani militants attacked the Pathankot air base earlier this month, leaving seven security personnel dead, after infiltrating the border belt in the Gurdaspur-Pathankot sector.

BSF sources said patrolling in the area had been intensified ever since the Pathankot terror strike.

Gurdaspur: BSF troopers gunned down an intruder from Pakistan along the worldwide border in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, an official said on Thursday.

The Additional Director of BSF from Western Zone Mahesh Kumar Singla had visited the border posts of Jaislamer and Bikaner along Pakistan and reviewed the security measures on Wednesday.

However, BSF sources claimed that it was an infiltration attempt as the person had knowledge of weak links along the IB.

When challenged, they did not stop and the security forces opened fire in which one of the men was killed. The BSF later called a flag meeting with Pakistan Rangers, where the latter refused to acknowledge that the man who was killed hailed from their land. They had come around 50 meters inside the Indian territory.

But BSF officials are drawing similarities between Thursday’s incident and another in 2010 when two terrorists had tried in a similar manner to enter India from the BSF “symbol” forward checkpost. Bamiyal is the same area from where the terrorists from Pakistan who perpetrated the IAF base attack in Pathankot had sneaked into this side.

Search operation for the infiltrators is still on.