BSF’s border management system shows encouraging results during Operation Sindoor: IG Shashank Anand

BSF IG Jammu Shashank Anand speaks to the media on Operation Sindoor, in Jammu on May 27, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI

Alert and suspecting more infiltration attempts from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir, the Border Security Force (BSF) on Tuesday (May 27, 2025) said a comprehensive integrated border management system (CIBMS) was allowing real-time monitoring in difficult terrains.

“Significant technological infusion is expected to take place soon. It is our endeavour to bring every inch of the international border under this system. A pilot project was launched back in 2017-18 and it has delivered encouraging results,” BSF Inspector General (IG) Shashank Anand said in Jammu.

Smart fencing projects developed under CIBMS cover a 5.5 km stretch of the border and are fitted with advanced sensors. 

The BSF said it was alert to fresh bids being made by Pakistan to push terrorists into J&K.  “We cannot let our guard down. We are maintaining the highest possible vigil along the border. There were inputs that the enemy may plan to conduct some kind of mischief, cross-border firing or stage infiltration. We are ready and vigilant,” Mr. Anand said.

Targeting terror infra

Noting that Operation Sindoor is continuing in J&K, the IG divulged the details of damage inflicted on terrorists along the border. “Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian posts on the night of May 8. We were already prepared for such provocation. As a result, we inflicted heavy damage on multiple Pakistani posts during the exchange, while there were no casualties or damage on our side,” Mr. Anand said.

He said Pakistani troops had again started unprovoked firing in the Samba region the following day. “On the nights of May 9 and 10, BSF launched heavy retaliatory shelling, and if the situation allowed, we had planned to target terror infrastructure along the border,” he said.

The BSF said that a Lashkar-e-Taiba launchpad in the Looni area, located just three kilometres across the international border, had also been targeted in the BSF response. “The operation was executed with precision, and our aim was to disrupt any potential infiltration attempts,” he added.

Counter-drone system limitations

BSF Deputy Inspector General, Jammu Frontier, Chiterpaul Singh, said that drone warfare had emerged as a major challenge during Operation Sindoor. 

“There are limitations in the counter-drone system, which we will work to improve so that drones can be neutralised right at the zero line,” he said.

The BSF managed to target 76 Pakistani border outposts and 42 forward defence locations (FDLs) and destroyed three terrorist launch pads during the operation, he said. This was in response to the Pakistani Army targeting 60 Indian posts and 49 forward positions, Mr. Singh said.

He said a key terror launch pad run by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) near the Sunderbani sector was destroyed. “There is no movement seen from that area now,” he added.

Published - May 27, 2025 11:55 pm IST