The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted high-level committee to suggest ways to tighten security along India-Pakistan border. The committee will be headed by former Union Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta. It will suggest ways

• To strengthen the security along the India-Pakistan Border.
• Address the issue of gaps and vulnerability in border fencing.

MHA decision to constitute to this committee comes after two terrorist attacks in Punjab. First was in July 2015 on Dinanagar police station in Gurdaspur district and second was in January 2016 on strategic Pathankot airbase. In both attacks terrorists from Pakistan had infiltrated into India after beaching the India-Pakistan border in Punjab especially from the riverine stretch.

Did You Know?

• The India and Pakistan Border, known locally as the International Border (IB), is an international border running between India and Pakistan that demarcates the Indian states and the four provinces of Pakistan.
• The border runs from the Line of Control (LoC), which separates the Indian controlled Kashmir from Pakistan controlled Kashmir, in the north, to Wagah, which partitioned the Indian Punjab state and Punjab Provinceof Pakistan, in the east.
• The Zero Point separates the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to Sindh province of Pakistan, in the south.
• Drafted and created based upon the Radcliffe line in 1947, the border, which separates Pakistan and India from each other, traverses a variety of terrains ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts.

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