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BSF commanders to hold flag meet with Pak Rangers
Oct 29, 2013 - YUSUF JAMEEL |
Oct 29, 2013 - YUSUF JAMEEL |
- Local commanders of the Border Security Force (BSF) are likely to hold a flag meeting with their counterparts — the Pakistani Rangers — later on Monday in an attempt to de-escalate tensions along and International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir which has witnessed a series of bloody clashes between the facing forces in past three weeks.
According to the BSF officials, they tried to hold flag meeting on October 18 and 20 but the PR officials did not turn up for meeting.
Both the IB and LoC had, however, witnessed calm for two days from Friday after days of intermittent firing encouraging the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah to say on social blogging site Twitter, “After 12 days the border has finally fallen silent and people have been able to sleep at home without fear. Let us hope it stays this way now.”
The chief minister had earlier on Friday visited some of the villages close to the IB in Jammu and Samba districts to express solidarity with the people forced by the active hostilities to flee their home and hearth and relocate to safer places.
He became the first chief minister of the state ever to visit Nanga village in Samba district which is situated only a few metres away from the border.