Pakistani national nabbed in Punjab’s Gurdaspur as border tensions escalate

File photo of BSF personnel patrolling along the India-Pakistan border.

A Pakistani national was apprehended on the intervening night of May 3 and May 4 in Punjab's Gurdaspur, reported News18. The intruder is said to be in the custody of Punjab Police.

The person has been identified as Husnain and a Pakistani National Identity Card has been recovered from him.

According to News18 report, Husnain is a resident of Gujranwala city of Pakistanand was arrested by the authorities while he was crossing over to Gurdaspur from Pakistan on the intervening night of May 3-4.

This comes just days after a Pakistani Ranger was detained in Rajasthan, after a BSF constable was taken into Pakistan’s custody for inadvertently crossing the border into Pakistan, where he has now remained for over a week.

Accidental crossings of the border by soldiers or civilians are not unusual, and they are usually settled through agreed military procedures. The people involved are typically sent back after formal meetings between officers.

Amid the heightened tensions between the two countries in wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistani troops have continued unprovoked small arms firing in different sectors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, prompting effective retaliation by the Indian army.

The ceasefire violations along the LoC and International Border (IB) have been very rare since India and Pakistan renewed the ceasefire agreement on February 25, 2021.

Taking precautionary measures, the panicked border villagers have already started cleaning their community and individual bunkers to make them habitable.

Since the night of April 24, just hours after India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty following the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistani troops have been resorting to unprovoked firing at various places along the LoC in J-K, starting from the Kashmir Valley.