Ready to give befitting reply: BSF

Tribune News Service

Jammu, October 23

Border Security Force Additional Director General, Western Frontier, Arun Kumar has said the BSF is prepared to give a befitting reply to any aggression from the Pakistan side on the international border. “There is a lull on the international border for the past 24 hours but we have no doubt that this peace can take any turn any time and we are fully prepared. If Pakistan Rangers try to do anything, they will be given a befitting reply and we are fully prepared for that,” the ADG said while talking to mediapersons after the wreath-laying ceremony of Constable Gurnam Singh.

Gurnam breathed his last at Government Medical College in Jammu last night after being critically injured in a sniper fire on the international border on Friday morning. On the intervening night of October 19 and 20, the BSF had foiled an infiltration attempt in the Hiranagar sector in which Gurnam had played an important role. On Friday morning when the constable was injured, the BSF in retaliatory fire killed seven Pakistan Rangers personnel and one militant.

The ADG said the BSF had information that the Rangers were building up across the international border. “We are ready for any eventuality,” he said.

On the killing of seven Rangers personnel, the ADG said: “As far as the number of people killed is concerned, we cannot be fully sure. But as we have equipment with which we can see the other side, we have seen several people getting hit.”