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Army chief confirms Pakistan fortifications along north-west border | Indian Army Chief Deepak Kapoor on Wednesday confirmed the
construction of fortifications by Pakistan along the northwestern borders and also in other places, but said it could be a routine thing. Recently,
SR Ghosh, General Officer Commanding (GOC), western command, had said that
border crossing in the country's northern and northwestern parts were going on.
Kapoor said, the army was in close contact with paramilitary Border Security Force
(BSF) and was monitoring the situation closely. "We are in consonance and touch
and total coordination with each other therefore if something comes up in sector
which is ...with the BSF area... it will be well known to us. Some of these structures
have come up and some in other areas do keep coming up, it is also part of the
kind of preparation or defensive preparation, which a country can do. But we will
have to take stock of the whole thing over a period of time and see what is ..."
said Deepak Kapoor. According to the official reports nearly 395 infiltration
attempts were reported this year as compared to 342 in 2008. Pakistan, which like
India claims the Kashmir region in full, has consistently denied its involvement
in abetting the anti-India insurgency that has killed more than 47,000 people
since 1989. Reacting to intelligence inputs about possible attacks on India's
nuclear arsenal by militants, Kapoor gave assurance that the nuclear weapons were
completely safe. "As far as the security of the nuclear weapons is concerned,
I want to assure that they are fully secure," Kapoor said. Union Home ministry
had issued an alert on Tuesday (Dec.15) that Taliban trained militants planned
to target country's Defence establishments and nuclear research centers like the
Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC). |
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