{"id":50222,"date":"2022-01-24T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/taliban-takeover-in-afghanistan-hasnt-affected-jk-situation-yet-ig-bsf-kashmir-frontier\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T08:21:17","slug":"taliban-takeover-in-afghanistan-hasnt-affected-jk-situation-yet-ig-bsf-kashmir-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50222","title":{"rendered":"Taliban takeover in Afghanistan hasn\u2019t affected J&amp;K situation yet: IG BSF Kashmir Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>104 to 135 militants ready to infiltrate into this side. <\/strong><strong><em>Says Some guides have crossed over to Pak; their movement, their families under surveillance; shelf life of militants restricted to 6-8 weeks; procuring own drones to counter drone threat on\u00a0 LoC, 17.3 kg heroin worth Rs 88 Crores seized last year<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Srinagar, Jan 24: Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF) Kashmir frontier Raja Babu Singh Monday said that post ceasefire agreement last year, the overall situation on Kashmir LoC remained peaceful but the fresh intelligence inputs suggest that 104 to 135 militants are ready to sneak into this side. He also said that some guides have crossed over to the other side of LoC and their movement and their families are under constant watch of security agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the annual conference at BSF headquarters at Humhama on city outskirts, the IG BSF for Kashmir Frontier said that post ceasefire agreement in February last year, the situation has been peaceful on the LoC. \u201cBut our inputs suggest that there are 104 to 135 militants at the launch pads, who are ready to infiltrate into this side,\u201d the IG BSF said, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that there are also reports that some guides have crossed over to the other side of the LoC. \u201cTheir movement is being tracked and their families are under constant watch. The primary job of the guide is to bring groups of militants along,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the drone threats on LoC, the IG BSF said that it guards 96 kms of LoC in Kashmir and the drone threat was real. \u201cWe are procuring our own drones to counter the drone threat. Besides, a series of measures are in place to deal with drone threats,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that last year 17.3 kg heroin worth Rs 88 Crore were seized on the LoC by BSF and all efforts are being made to foil bids aimed at transporting narcotics from LoC. He said that Taliban takeover in Afghanistan last year hasn\u2019t affected J&amp;K in any form so far, but \u201csecurity agencies are monitoring situation closely.\u201d\u2014 (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>104 to 135 militants ready to infiltrate into this side. Says Some guides have crossed over to Pak; their movement, their families under surveillance; shelf life of militants restricted to 6-8 weeks; procuring own drones to counter drone threat on\u00a0 LoC, 17.3 kg heroin worth Rs 88 Crores seized last year Srinagar, Jan 24: Inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}