Pathankot attack: Modi government to fence borders the usage of laser beams

New Delhi: greater than forty susceptible unfenced stretches alongside the India-Pakistan border might be blanketed by using laser walls quickly with the house ministry giving it a top precedence to check any infiltration of terrorists in the wake of the Pathankot attack.

a majority of these riverine stretches positioned in Punjab might be blanketed by using the laser wall technology advanced by using Border safety force to completely remove the possibilities of breach of the global border by means of Pakistan-based totally terror organizations, a home ministry reputable stated.

A laser wall is a mechanism to stumble on gadgets passing the road of sight among the laser source and the detector. A laser beam over a river sets off a noisy siren in case of a breach.

As of now, best 5-6 out of round forty prone points are included by way of laser walls. This beam over the river sets off a loud siren in the case of a breach.

The suspected infiltration point of Ujj river in Bamiyal used by the six Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists earlier than storming the Pathankot air base was no longer blanketed by using a laser wall.

A digital camera to hold watch over the 130-metre-extensive river bed became located to be not recording the footage.

BSF has covered this stretch with the aid of putting up a laser wall last week earlier than prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go to to Pathankot air base on January nine.

The border guarding pressure had started putting up laser partitions on unfenced riverine stretches of international border remaining year in Jammu zone, which changed into more at risk of terrorist intrusions till three terrorists performed assault in Gurdaspur in Punjab in July last year.

The terrorists are believed to have entered India five kilometres downstream of Bamiyal near the Tash border outpost – a riverine point no longer covered through a laser wall as properly.

Bamiyal has BSF posts on both side of the river with a employees on every publish keeping an eye at the river round the clock. The place is also lit up with excessive mast lighting.

there's a possibility that the six Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists would possibly have walked through the dry river bed at night time and BSF employees would possibly have missed them.

officers said Bamiyal is not called a drug trafficking route as no drugs were seized right here over the past 3-four years.
The BSF has already deployed extra personnel along the border in Punjab and boat patrolling has been intensified, especially in the course of night time.