BSF to name border post Sindoor after Op success
New Delhi, May 28 -- The Border Security Force will propose to name a post near the international border as Sindoor in a reference to Operation Sindoor, India's successful military response to the Pahalgam terror strike, inspector general (Jammu sector), Shashank Anand said on Tuesday.
The officer shared how a group of women BSF officers commanded the sensitive posts during the cross-border firing and destroyed posts of Pakistan Rangers and terror launch pads during the operation. Additionally, BSF will also propose to name two other posts in the RS Pura Sector as homage to two of its personnel -- Mohammed Imtiyaz and Deepak Chingakham -- who died in the line of duty, he added.
"BSF women officers had the option of relocating to the headquarters from the border outposts but our brave women chose to stay at forward duty post and do their duty along with their male counterparts. Women officers such as assistant commandant Neha Bhandari, constables Manjeet Kaur, Sumi, Malkit Kaur, Jyoti Sampa, and Swapna opened fire at the posts of the enemy near the international border. They gave a befitting reply," Anand said.
"We will send a proposal to the headquarters and the government to name the post as Sindoor in Samba sector. In remembrance of our two bravehearts, who died in the line of duty, we will name two other posts in RS Pura Sector," he added.
On Tuesday, BSF shared videos of the force destroying Pakistan posts and three launchpads.
Assistant commandant Neha Bhandari, who was commanding a post at the border in Samba, said," If they fired at us once, we fired at them twice. We fired flat trajectory, high trajectory at their posts and forced them to run. Their surveillance equipment was broken. Women jawans were given the option to retreat to the headquarters but they all chose to stay back at the outpost and respond to the attack."
Sharing details of how communication lines along Pakistan's Sialkot district near the border were destroyed, Anand said that on the morning of May 10, Pakistan flew drones with payloads at low heights. "BSF engaged these drones but in one unfortunate incident, our post commander Mohammed Imtiyaz, his colleague constable Deepak, and one army man Naik Sunil Kumar lost their lives due to shelling....
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