NEW DELHI – India has installed a laser fence system in vulnerable areasalong the Indo-Pakistani border as a means of countering intrusions,according to a report by the Eurasian Times.
According to the report, some 40 units of a laser fence developed by theDelhi-based Laser Science and Technology Center (LASTEC) have beeninstalled in particularly vulnerable areas of the border.
The laser fence is made of pillars approximately three meters high, formingan invisible barrier and acting as a signaling device.
“We have electric fencing along the border but the enemies are too smart,”an official told reporters, adding, “They have developed chemicals whichthey spray on this fence to cut at two points to make an entry into India,”cited by the Eurasian Times.
He added that the nation’s border security force relies heavily on imagesand video recorded by real-time surveillance systems.
The fence units were presented during a five-day exhibition organizedby the Indian Science Congress at the Lovely Professional University.LASTEC specialists disclosed that additional units are now in developmentthat record video both day and night.
In the meantime, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan criticized New Delhifor not being ready for a dialogue with Islamabad.
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Speaking during his two-day visit to Turkey, Imran Khan called thesituation “bizarre.”
“We are trying to have a dialogue. Trying to move towards a friendlyrelationship with India. We had a stand-off with India and India refusesto talk to Pakistan under the pretext that until Pakistan stops terrorism,India will not talk to us,” Imran said, adding that, “it’s a bizarresituation where we feel how you can move forward if there is no dialogue.”
In his first interview in 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi saidthat “[Indian] government never opposed dialogue but amid the noiseof bombs and guns, the dialogue cannot be heard.”
The dialogue between the two nations largely ceased following a 2016 terrorattack on an Indian Air Force Station in India’s Pathankot, the PolicyTimes noted. During January 2, 2016, attack, six terrorists killed tenIndian military personnel and wounded 22. The Indian government putresponsibility for the attack on the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group,which operates in the mountainous contested region of Kashmir. – Sputnik
