Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 9: All India Anti- Terrorist Front (AIATF) chairman, Maninder Jeet Singh Bitta today said that the situation along borders in Jammu sector was grim and the border people were facing brunt of the Pakistani firing and mortar shelling continuously.
Addressing a press conference at Press Club here this afternoon, M S Bitta expressed serious concern over the deaths of eight innocent civilians, including children and over thirty others who were injured in heavy Pak shelling along the border and LoC recently. He said the Government must provide safe shelters and other facilities to the people residing closer to the border. He said that he personally visited some border areas and took note of the problems being faced by these people.
Bitta said that people are living in constant fear and were vulnerable in such a dangerous situation when the neighbouring enemy resorted to heavy shelling at unexpected hours. He stressed that such sinister and offensive attacks by Pakistan in which innocent civilian were being killed cannot be ignored for long. He reiterated that even continuous skirmishes along the border between Indian and Pakistani troops can not solve the problems and for this a political solution is needed.
He added that though the BSF had destroyed more than 14 posts manned by Pakistani Rangers along the international borders in Ramgarh and Arnia sectors of Jammu but this proxy war will go on unless a concrete action is not taken to discourage Pakistan. He demanded that the Government must act fast on this sensitive issue.
Bitta also visited the native palace of martyred BSF solider Gurnam Singh at Rathana, who sacrificed his life while safeguarding borders in RS Pura sector. Later, he visited, Government Medical College Hospital, Jammu to meet the injured from of Pak shelling.
In order to boost the morale of BSF troopers, Bitta also visited 142 battalion of BSF in RS Pura sector. He was accompanied by state unit president of the Front Bharat Bhandari, vice president Deepak Sobti, secretary Gourav Mahajan and publicity secretary Prince
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