The mouth of the newly dug tunnel, which is located 160 meters on the Indian side and estimated to be around 40 meters on the Pakistani side of the international border, was found reinforced with sandbags bearing the markings of Karachi, Pakistan. “The exit (of the tunnel) was in thick bushes carefully hidden and meticulously covered with soil and wild vegetation … It is a newly dug tunnel and appears to be used for the first time,” BSF said in a statement.
The 200-meter-long cross-border tunnel, located 70 meters from the border fence and with a depth of 25 meters, is the closest to the Pakistani border posts. Chak bhura, Rajab Sahid and Asif Sahid, while the closest point on the Indian side is BOP Regal in the Samba district.
The discovery of the underground infiltration route was made possible after BSF and J&K police, aided by clues including wiretapping-based electronic surveillance and even social media activity, traversed the route taken by the terrorists before they were intercepted. and neutralized at the Ban toll. plaza on the Jammu-Srinagar road. “It took us two days to trace the route with the help of clues available as a result of the encounter. It was learned that the terrorists were picked up by a truck from Jatwal village, Samba District, on the national highway. A special team led by a superior officer was formed to carry out the detailed search of the infiltration point, which led to the detection of the tunnel at first light. BSF IG and DIG and SSP Samba were present to supervise the search, ”said a BSF spokesperson.
Sources said that the use of underground tunnels as an infiltration route is not unusual in Samba, with the tall grass ‘Sarkanda’ on the Pakistani side of the international border growing in violation of a joint agreement between the border guard forces of India. and Pakistan to keep the stretch near IB free from such growth for better visibility, offering logistical ease for terrorists to tunnel, undetected, to the Indian side. Indian agencies say Pakistani forces often provide engineering support for the creation of such underground infiltration routes.
The tunnel discovery only adds to the huge body of evidence that establishes the Pakistani origins of the Jaish terrorists’ plan to attack the district development surveys in J&K with an unusually large cache of weapons. The “irrefutable” evidence includes several items recovered from the murdered terrorists, including a digital mobile radio made by the Pakistani company Micro Electronics. The messages on the DMR team clearly showed that the trespassing terrorists were in constant contact with their handlers on the other side of the border.
Other recoveries pointing to the complicity of Pakistan-based terror groups included a smartphone from a Pakistani company Q Mobile; drugs manufactured in Karachi and elsewhere in Pakistan; and shoes made in Pakistan.
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