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Saturday, July 07, 2012
India, Pakistan not to indulge in unprovoked firingNEW DELHI: At a time when the relationship between India and Pakistan has reached an all-time low in the wake of Abu Jundal’s chilling confession, the border forces of two nations have issued a joint statement promising not to indulge in unprovoked firing.
The statement came after a marathon four-day meeting of the Border Security Force and the Pakistan Rangers, reported Press Trust of India. Addressing a joint press conference, BSF Director General UK Bansal and Pakistan Rangers chief Major General Rizwan Akhtar said both the forces will work to ensure that such ceasefire violations do not take place along the border. “We talked in detail (on the issue of cross-border firing)...This should not happen. We will better the mechanism, we will ensure that those parameters that we have discussed here (during the meeting) will be told to every trooper on the border and we believe that we will have better results,” Akhtar said after signing a joint record of discussions. Seconding Akhtar’s view, Bansal said steps should be taken to ensure that ceasefire violations do not take place. Akhtar also refuted India’s claim over smuggling of fake Indian currency notes, and said Pakistan was not into such kind of activities. Both the forces also talked about applying a humanitarian approach in case of people crossing the border unintentionally. online
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk