Impossible to infiltrate through LoC: experts

ISLAMABAD: Following the attack on the Indian Army’s Uri Base, regional and security experts in the capital are terming the Indian allegations on Pakistan as totally fabricated and ridiculous.

According to reports, some militants broke into the Indian Army Base near the Uri Town of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday and attacked the sleeping soldiers, killing at least 17 of them.

Completely ruling out anybody’s involvement from across the border in the incident, one analyst pointed out the death toll was perhaps much higher than being revealed due to morale reasons. He wondered if the incident was self-staged to launch a major crackdown on the Kashmiri separatists. “Kashmir is already under a lockdown. The Indian Army is on a state of full alert following the continuing violence in the valley. So how can somebody just cross the border and attack sleeping soldiers? It is beyond one’s comprehension,” he said.

Similar were the views of another senior analyst. “The attack has been staged to counter the mounting violence. With India bringing in the most sophisticated technology and expertise to stop what they call is infiltration from the other side, nobody can cross the Line of Control and Working Boundary.”

The ISPR also pointed this out in a statement saying Pakistan does not allow any infiltration from its soil because it is against its policy and there are watertight arrangements in place on both sides of the Line of Control and Working Boundary. “In the backdrop of the Uri terrorist attack, Pakistan and Indian Army DGMOs established hotline contact on Indian request this afternoon,” the statement read. It said the Pakistani DGMO asked his Indian counterpart to share any actionable intelligence on the cross-border infiltration while refuting the “unfounded and premature” Indian allegations of Pakistan’s involvement in Sunday’s attack.

India has erected a barrier on LoC that consists of double row fencing and concertina wire which is eight to twelve feet in height, is electrified and connected to a network of motion sensors, thermal imaging devices, lighting systems and alarms. Despite these security measures, India is also working on a wall along the internationally- disputed Jammu and Kashmir border with Pakistan. It would be 179-km-long, 10-meter-high and 135-feet wide. A road is also planned parallel to the border linking all BSF posts with each other. At the same time, the Indian Army is on a high alert in the valley, especially in the areas around LoC.