The Centre is reportedly sending more troops to India-Pakistan border in the wake of renewed fighting with Pakistani-based militants along the international border, TV channels reported. For the past couple of days the militants, with the alleged help of Pakistani Rangers tried to sneak inside Indian territories. Indian forced retaliated, leading to the death of four civilians and two army jawans.Farooq Abdullah reactsFormer Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Monday said incidents like Samba encounter, which left six people dead, did not augur well for establishing permanent peace in the state. "These incidents do not augur well for the state and may hamper a peaceful environment from being established in future," Abdullah said.Abdullah was reacting to the Saturday's incident which saw four civilians and two army jawans killed in an encounter which lasted for nearly 12 hours in Samba area of Jammu region.The patron of National Conference said that while India should try and prevent such incidents from taking place, Pakistan, on its part, should try and rein in such elements which were against establishment of peace in the sub-continent."Talks should be allowed to take place between the two countries on working out a permanent peace in the region and for that, the number of such incidents has to come to down to zero," Abdullah, who has been holding series of meetings ahead of elections later this year, said.He refused to get involved in a blame-game and said the issue at present was that the state government as well as the opposition parties should work together in preventing loss of innocent lives in the state."Lot of innocent blood has flown. We are not here for playing politics over the dead.we want peace to be the order of the day," he said.BSF lodges protestWithout ruling out a possible attempt of ceasefire-violation by Pakistani Rangers, Border Security Force claimed to have foiled first major attempt of infiltration by militants from Pakistan in Samba sector of Jammu.More than 1,000 rounds from AK 47 were fired by the infiltrating militants, as at least 4,00 empty cases of the AK 47 rifle rounds were recovered during the morning search, conduct by the BSF troops, said DIG, BSF, Jammu J B Sangwan, while briefing media persons about the incident in Jammu on Friday.He informed that the incident took place at around 10.40 pm on Thursday night, when a group of 10 to 15 militants crossed the Indo-Pakistan International Border and about five to six of them came close to even the BSF fencing.A BSF sentry observed their movement and the BSF troops got alert and started firing, which was responded by firing from the militant groups.Following a half an hour’s firing, the militants managed to flee back under the cover of firing during which they fired at least 1,000 rounds.The morning search by the BSF troops trailed empty cases back to Pakistan, indicating that the militants went back and none of them could infiltrate into Indian territory, he stated.This is first major infiltration bid of militants this year so far, he stated adding that last year, five to six attempts of infiltration bids were made by militants, which were foiled by troops.To register protest, a meeting at company commander level has already been held with Pakistani Rangers in the morning, and another meeting was scheduled later in the day, which will be at commandant level, the DIG said.
