BSF’s punitive fire compels Pak Rangers to ‘plead for ceasefire’

The Border Security Force’s (BSF’s) three-day punitive fire across the international border compelled Pakistan Rangers on Sunday to plead with in Jammu to stop the firing.

“On Western borders, the befitting reply by BSF units to unprovoked shelling and firing across international boundary by Pak forces has forced them to plead for ceasefire,” said a senior BSF officer.

“Today (on May 20), Rangers called up Jammu BSF formation and beseeched to stop firing”.

The officer informed that for the last three days, the precision fire of the BSF on Pakistani firing locations inflicted heavy losses on them.

“Yesterday, the firing from BSF troopers found their mark with one of the Rangers in chicken neck area of Aknoor,” he said.

The BSF has also released a 19 second thermal video footage showing how an enemy bunker was blown up in its precision fire.

Early Friday, a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state, a BSF jawan constable Sita Ram Upadhayay and four civilians were killed and over a dozen others were injured in Pak firing on the border in RS Pura and Arnia sectors of Jammu district.

The four civilians who were killed were identified as Sat Pal, 60, Jagmohan, 45, Tarsem Lal, 52, and Manjeet Kaur, 45.

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