NEW DELHI: Amid reports of intensified cross-border incidents in a section of Jammu, India threatened to reply to Pakistan’s alleged transgressions on Wednesday with double the force.

Press Trust of India claimed that four Pakistan Rangers were killed in BSF’s “retaliaton” after a jawan of the force lost his life in heavy firing from the other side on a patrol on Wednesday along the International Border in J&K’s Samba district.

According to the PTI, the retaliation forced the Rangers to wave white flags and came on a day when the Modi government asked the BSF to provide a “suitable and appropriate reply” for any unprovoked firing from across the India-Pakistan border, PTI said.

“We have retaliated effectively to the Pakistan firing, in which four Pakistan Rangers have been killed (opposite to Regal post) along the IB in Samba sector this evening,” Inspector General, BSF, Jammu Frontier, Rakesh Sharma told PTI in Jammu.

Published in Dawn, January 1st, 2015