{"id":5531,"date":"2016-10-04T09:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2016-10-04T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:19:54","slug":"pak-boy-crosses-ib-bsf-returns-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5531","title":{"rendered":"Pak boy crosses IB, BSF returns him to Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>They said he \u201cinadvertently\u201d crossed the International Border (IB) and came over to the Indian side in search of drinking water from a tube-well as he was thirsty.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a noble gesture amid heightened tension between the two countries, the BSF today handed back to Pakistan authorities a 12-year-old boy who had accidentally crossed over to the Indian side in search of drinking water.<br \/>\nOfficials said the the boy identified as Muhammad Tanveer was apprehended by the Border Security Force last evening at the Dona Telu Mal border post in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>They said he \u201cinadvertently\u201d crossed the International Border (IB) and came over to the Indian side in search of drinking water from a tube-well as he was thirsty.<br \/>\nThe BSF, officials said, took care of Tanveer overnight and kept him at their camp and early today contacted their Pakistani counterparts so that he could be sent back to his village Dhari in the Kasur district of that country.<br \/>\n\u201cTanveer was handed over to the Rangers at about 11:00 AM today as per the policy of handing back inadvertent crossers on humanitarian grounds,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>An Indian soldier, Chandu Babulal Chavan, is in Pakistan\u2019s custody after he \u201cinadvertently\u201d crossed over last week.<br \/>\nDefence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said a well-established mechanism through the DGMO has been activated to bring back Chavan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They said he \u201cinadvertently\u201d crossed the International Border (IB) and came over to the Indian side in search of drinking water from a tube-well as he was thirsty. In a noble gesture amid heightened tension between the two countries, the BSF today handed back to Pakistan authorities a 12-year-old boy who had accidentally crossed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}