From TOI
Deeptiman Tiwary, TNN Dec 12, 2013, 04.01AM IST
NEW DELHI: The construction of a 10-metre high embankment on the India-Pakistan border in Jammu sector by India is causing considerable hostility in Pakistan. Security agencies here say that though Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has extended a hand of friendship, a propaganda to form public opinion against the wall is being spread with participation from members of his own party.
The Border Security Force (BSF) recently revived a five-year-old plan to build a 179-km-long, 10-metre high mud embankment on the Jammu border to prevent border villages and its own jawans being hit by Pakistan Ranger bullets and mortar shells during ceasefire violations.
Deeptiman Tiwary, TNN Dec 12, 2013, 04.01AM IST
NEW DELHI: The construction of a 10-metre high embankment on the India-Pakistan border in Jammu sector by India is causing considerable hostility in Pakistan. Security agencies here say that though Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has extended a hand of friendship, a propaganda to form public opinion against the wall is being spread with participation from members of his own party.The Border Security Force (BSF) recently revived a five-year-old plan to build a 179-km-long, 10-metre high mud embankment on the Jammu border to prevent border villages and its own jawans being hit by Pakistan Ranger bullets and mortar shells during ceasefire violations.
Through various public foras and protest rallies in Pakistan, however, the message being spread is that India is doing what Israel did to Palestine, dividing Kashmir even as the dispute remain unsettled. The information being spread also talks about a concrete wall on the LoC, which is nowhere in the plans of the armed forces.
Recently, on a dais shared by 26/11 mastermind and LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, former ISI chief Hamid Gul and members of Sharif's party PML-N, in an event organized by Difa-e-Pakistan Council, the proposed wall came in for serious criticism. According to agency reports, Saeed said Pakistan would tear down such a wall with bare hands. Even Jaish-e-Mohammed reacted in Pakistan press to the proposed wall calling it laughable and hardly a barrier in preventing its mujahideen from crossing over.
Only last month, a protest rally was held in Muzaffarabad against the construction of a "concrete wall along the Line of Control (LoC) and the working boundary in Sialkot sector" as reported in Pakistan press.
According to Express Tribune, "the rally was jointly organized by the Kashmiri refugees of 1989 and the Pasban-e-Hurriyat -- a local organization working in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) for the Kashmir cause".
"While addressing the rally, chairman Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ghazali said that India was following the footprints of Israel to divide Kashmiris permanently as the latter did with Palestinians," Tribune wrote.
A senior security establishment officer in Delhi said, "The wall is being built in Jammu to hold off ceasefire violations. It has nothing to do with Kashmir. The protests in Pakistan are misplaced. BSF had earlier too made embankments on International Border when the fencing work was on."
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