Smuggler shot at, manages to crawl back to Pakistani side

This comes after the army foiled two infiltration attempts along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and captured a terrorist

A smuggler was shot at but managed to crawl back to the Pakistani side as the Border Security Force (BSF) said it foiled a smuggling attempt along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K)’s Samba district and recovered about eight kg of what is believed to be heroin in the early hours of Thursday.

About eight kg of what is believed to be heroin was recovered. (HT PHOTO)

In a statement, the BSF said troopers noticed a suspicious movement of the smuggler carrying a bag and fired and injured him. “On searches, eight packets (about 8 kgs) of narcotics, likely to be heroin were recovered from the spot.”

This comes after the army foiled two infiltration attempts along the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu & Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and captured an intruder, Tabarak Hussain.

Hussain told his interrogators that a Pakistani army officer paid him 30,000 Pakistani rupees and he conducted two to three recces of Indian forward posts on the LoC along with other terrorists with an aim to target them at an opportune time. Hussain was captured from the same area in 2016 along with his brother, Haroon Ali, but was repatriated on humanitarian grounds in November 2017.

In a statement, the army said as the area is heavily mined, the search operation is being carried out carefully. “More recoveries in the area are expected.”