Have the Taliban come very close to the Indian border? Or is the Pakistani Army playing tricks?
Have the Taliban come very close to the Indian border? Or is the Pakistani Army playing tricks?
Senior officers on the Indo-Pak border believe that the three rockets fired at the border, two of which landed 2km inside Indian territory at Dande and Beharwal villages in Amritsar district on Saturday night, were either the work of the Pakistani Army or the Taliban. The rockets bore the marks of a Pakistani ordnance factory, the officers said.
Indian army officers inspected the area on Monday and the Border Security Force conveyed its "strong displeasure" to the Pakistan Rangers at a meeting at the Wagah border.
Pakistani officers denied that any official agency of Pakistan was involved in the rocket attack but promised to look into the incident.
This is the first time since the Indo-Pak war of 1971 that Indian villages have been attacked from the Pakistani side with rockets. The army and the BSF cordoned off the area and rocket splinters were collected for testing.
Luckily, there were no casualties as the rockets fell in agricultural fields. Panic, however, gripped the border villages. The third rocket fell on the Pakistan side, about 200 yards from the border, near Pul Kanjri village.
The bombing came a few hours after the BSF killed a Pakistani youth near Roranwali village (Attari) on Saturday. Pakistan Rangers personnel later took away his corpse.
After a commandant-level meeting with Pakistani authorities, BSF inspector-general Himmat Singh said the possibility of a rocket attack by Pakistan-based terrorist outfits was not ruled out.
Dilbagh Singh, who received minor injuries from rocket splinters, told Lopoke police officers that he saw a ball of flame falling in the nearby paddy field. The second rocket fell near Tejpal Singh's farmhouse. At one point he felt Pakistan was attacking India.
Some villagers reported seeing two projectiles with sparks coming from the Pakistani side and landing in the fields. Had they fallen on village dwellings, many human lives would have been lost, officers said.
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