Alert sounded after paraglider spotted close to Indo-Pak border

July 13, 2016 10:32

A massive search operation has been launched along the Indo-Pak border on the Pathankot-Jammu stretch of the national highway in Jammu and Kashmir after an intelligence alert was sounded about a motorised paraglider having been seen near Kaluchak. Army sources inform that an alert was received last evening that a blue and white coloured paraglider had been spotted by troops deployed along the border in Kaluchak area at around 5 pm in the general location of Rakh Bandawali.

With the intelligence agencies having earlier sounded an alert that terrorists might try to infiltrate from Pakistan using a paraglider, parachute in order to carry out an attack deep inside Indian territory, a high-level alert was immediately sounded.

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