NEW DELHI: Pathankot terror strike could have been prevented if lessons were learnt from previous terror strikes with a main focus on securing country’s international border with Pakistan which is not yet “well guarded”, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra said here today.
Speaking about the recent infiltrations by terror groups through International Border (IB), including the recent attack on Pathankot air base, Vohra said BSF with its limited capacities cannot guard the borders which is a long stretch of over 200 to 250 kilometers including the Punjab IB.
The Governor who was here to deliver a key note address on seventh National Investigation Agency (NIA) day, noted that the five-six terror attacks which took place from September 2013 onwards via Kathua through the IB, part of which falls in Jammu and Kashmir, should have been followed up as closely as the Pathankot attack.
He said that the attack on Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur could have been avoided, if the previous terror attacks were subjected to a tight investigation.
“…And if Dinanagar would have been properly investigated, Pathankot, I am sure would have been almost impossible because we would have been able to know the routes taken by the terror groups to infiltrate the IB. I also hold very strongly that IB is not well guarded,” Vohra, who has been the Governor of the border state for last eight years, said.(Agencies)
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