|
|
|
| 05 July 2004 | Monday | 16 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
Kashmir fence nears completion
SONAPINDI POST, July 4: Indian troops were on high alert along the Kashmir border to stop infiltration before New Delhi fenced off the frontier, the army said on Sunday.
India has nearly completed fencing the frontier in disputed Kashmir to stop incursions by militants.
The fence covers 500km of the 740km Line of Control. The rest of the frontier is too inaccessible to fence. "In view of the fencing along the LoC getting completed ... terrorist organizations are trying to push in as many terrorists as possible," Indian army spokesman Col Mukhtar Singh told newsmen.
"As a result, the troops on the LoC are in a state of high alert," he said. Speaking at this outpost on the LoC in Kupawara district, with the bodies of three militants lying at a distance, he claimed that soldiers had foiled an infiltration bid on Saturday and killed the three.
The fence begins in Jammu and passes through mountains, valleys, jungles and snowbound passes before ending at the Siachen Glacier. -Reuters
|
|
|
|