Pathankot attack: BSF DG tours border areas in Punjab

BSF Director General D K Pathak, flanked by a battery of his top commanders, today visited some sensitive border locations along the Punjab frontier in the wake of the deadly terrorist attack on the Pathankot IAF base.
Senior officials said the Border Security Force chief and other top officers of the paramilitary visited Bamiyal, a village located in Pathankot, and a nearby border post to understand the possible routes that could have been exploited by the six terrorists who laid a daunting seige at the forward air base begining January 2.
The DG, they said, was briefed about the security paraphernalia deployed by the force to plug gaps along the India-Pakistan International Border and the gadgets put in place by it to check infiltrators.

Pathak, it is understood, was told by the field commanders that there was no possibility of any infiltration from the area and its adjoining border locations as the force has pressed in additional manpower and mounted an effective vigil to secure the area, marred by riverine and dense forest areas.
Pathak also visited a 134-metre long 'nullah' and few other riverine that runs along the border and is unfenced.
The DG is expected to submit a report with regard to this tour to the Union Home Ministry tomorrow.

The border guarding force had yesterday submitted a report to the Centre after analysing the possible route taken by the attackers of the Pathankot IAF base, stating it had found no breach in the fence but added there were some gapping holes along the IB and malfunctioning of some of the electronic surveillance equipments it uses.

Senior BSF officials have been camping in Bamiyal and adjoining areas to take stock of the unfenced and riverine areas.
The Home Ministry had earlier asked the BSF to submit a report on the breach by terrorists who sneaked into India and carried out terror strike at the Indian Air Force base.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had also said in Pathankot today that the BSF has already been asked to give details of areas from where terrorists could have entered.