Floods ravage India-Pak border; damage over 110 km of fence

Around 90 border posts inundated, including 65-67 in Punjab

- MPOST BUREAU

NEW DELHI: Severe flooding in Jammu and Punjab has caused extensive damage along the India-Pakistan international border, leaving stretches of fencing submerged or destroyed and forcing the Border Security Force (BSF) to temporarily vacate dozens of posts. Officials said on Thursday that over 110 kilometers of border fencing had been affected, with at least 90 BSF posts inundated in forward areas.

The flooding, triggered by torrential rains and swollen rivers, has devastated rural settlements and farmland on both sides of the frontier. In Punjab, around 80 kilometers of fencing across Gurdaspur, Amritsar and Ferozepur sectors has been damaged, while in Jammu nearly 30 kilometers of border barriers have collapsed or tilted.

Officials confirmed the scale of the impact. "In Gurdaspur, nearly 30 to 40 of our border outposts were submerged. We evacuated all men and equipment safely with zero casualties. Around 30 km of fencing has been washed away or damaged," they said.