ISLAMABAD – Aiming to further strengthen its ability to carry out swiftstrikes during wars, the Indian Army is going to raise new lethal battleformations along the borders with Pakistan by October.

The Indian Army is slated to raise the first few Integrated Battle Groups(IBG) along the Pakistan border, following which it will startsimultaneously raising them on the China border too.

“We carried out an exercise to test the Integrated Battle Groups conceptunder the Western Command.

The feedback from the formations and top commanders has been very positiveand that is why we are going to start by raising two to three IBGs alongPakistan border by October this year,” top sources in the Army said.

The sources said that the discussion regarding the exercise and feedbackwas discussed in detail by the seven Army commanders in the Armyheadquarters in their war room last week, and the commanders-in-chief havebeen given the powers to raise the IBGs in their respective areas ofresponsibilities.