In the wake of receiving credible intelligence, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Army have been put on high alert at the Line of Control (LoC) as there is a possibility that China could use Pakistan to trigger large-scale incursions, along the international border.
“We have specific inputs that Pakistan could try and foment trouble along the border. But we have taken adequate preventive measures and substantially increased our security presence along the Indo-Pak border,’’ a senior BSF official said.
India just made a series of strategic moves in the Ladakh sector and occupied around two dozen peaks on the southern banks of the Pangong Tso and Spanggur Gap. This move has stunned China which did not expect India would respond like this.
Even as meetings are being taken place between senior military officers of India and China, not to mention the just-concluded meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart in Russia.
Intelligence report suggests, in order to divert the attention of Indian security forces, China could use Pakistan as a proxy to start an armed offensive along the LoC by violating the ceasefire line.
Government has sent nearly 100 companies or 10,000 personnel of paramilitary forces to the border area. Additional security companies that were deployed along the Chinese frontier are those that were recently pulled out of Jammu & Kashmir.
Both Indo Tibetian Border Police ( ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) have heightened up security deployment in the Doklam region in Sikkim and Kalapani region in Uttarakhand following increased Chinese activity noticed in these sectors.
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat had on Thursday warned Pakistan of any misadventure and said, “Pakistani Army would suffer heavy losses if it attempted any misadventure.”