Keeping Up

Yunus Dar

Cross-border shelling from the Pakistan side has become a regular affair in Jammu and Kashmir, and the Border Security Force (BSF) is giving a befitting reply to such provocations, the Director General of BSF, Rajni Kant Mishra, said in a presser on 30 November 2018.

Addressing journalists on the occasion of the celebration of the BSF’s 53 years of service to the nation, Mishra said infiltration, sniping and cross-border firing had intensified on the Jammu international border and all such attempts have been effectively and suitably retaliated by the BSF. He said the force had launched Operation Bhim-I in January 2018 and Bhim-II in June 2018, establishing tactical headquarters of all the battalions at the border, under which the force responded in a targeted and delib