PAK REFUSES TO ACCEPT BODY OF INTRUDER
PATHANKOT/JAMMU: Pakistani authorities refused on Saturday to accept the body of a suspected intruder who was shot dead by India’s border guards in Punjab’s Pathankot district, officials said. The rebuff by Pakistan Rangers, which guards the country’s borders, is seen as its refusal to acknowledge the suspected intruder’s Pakistani citizenship, officials said.
PATHANKOT/JAMMU: Pakistani authorities refused on Saturday to accept the body of a suspected intruder who was shot dead by India’s border guards in Punjab’s Pathankot district, officials said.
The rebuff by Pakistan Rangers, which guards the country’s borders, is seen as its refusal to acknowledge the suspected intruder’s Pakistani citizenship, officials said.
Border Security Force (BSF) had called a “flag meeting” with Pakistan Rangers on Saturday to hand over the body.
Pakistani currency, a cigarette packet, a matchbox and a soft drink pouch were found on the slain intruder, said Pathankot senior superintendent of police Rakesh Kaushal.
“We have sent the body for post-mortem as the other side has refused to take it,” he added.
Officials said two more infiltrators may have gone back after coming under heavy fire.
The intruder was shot dead near the Tinda border outpost in the Bamyal sector, the same area through which Pakistan-based militants had crossed over to attack the air force base in Pathankot and later a police station in Dinanagar, according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Security forces launched a search operation on Friday after a speech impaired man claimed to have seen suspected militants on the Punjab-Himachal border.
POLICE RECOVER ARMY FATIGUE
Police also recovered five Indian army uniforms and related military paraphernalia on the Samba-Kathua highway, raising fears of militant movement in the area which saw a brazen attack on an army camp earlier this week that left seven Indian soldiers dead.
A senior army officer, however, said on Saturday the uniforms belongs to 23 Rashtriya Rifles sepoy, Sandeep Singh, who lost the bag while going home in Gurdaspur on November 21.
“There is no terrorist connection to it. The bag was stolen by a thief, who abandoned it under a culvert in Plaa on Samba-Kathua highway,” he added.