{"id":292450,"date":"2025-04-28T15:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/pakistans-detention-of-indian-border-guard-adds-to-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:46:20","slug":"pakistans-detention-of-indian-border-guard-adds-to-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/pakistans-detention-of-indian-border-guard-adds-to-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Detention of Indian Border Guard Adds to Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28int-india-pakistan-ckpv\/28int-india-pakistan-ckpv-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Pakistan\u2019s Detention of Indian Border Guard Adds to Tensions\" title=\"Pakistan\u2019s Detention of Indian Border Guard Adds to Tensions\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The detention of an Indian border guard by Pakistani forces has injected another element of tension into the already volatile confrontation between the two countries after last week\u2019s deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The family of the Indian border guard, Purnam Kumar Shaw, who is part of the paramilitary Border Security Force, has expressed concern about his fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was accompanying farmers looking after their crops along the border in the Indian state of Punjab when he strayed across the line demarcating Indian and Pakistani territory and was detained, according to the Indian news media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was detained on Wednesday, a day after the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/23\/world\/asia\/kashmir-attack-india-pakistan.html\" title=\"\">terrorist attack<\/a> in the Indian part of Kashmir, which killed 26 civilians and has pushed the nuclear-armed neighbors to the verge of military confrontation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">India has accused Pakistan of having a hand in the attack and has indicated it is preparing a military strike, in addition to other punishing measures it has already laid out. Pakistan has denied the accusations and reciprocated with its own retaliatory measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Shaw\u2019s detention could give the Pakistani government a bargaining chip and affect India\u2019s options for striking Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Indian security officials have remained tight-lipped about the case. A senior Pakistani military official confirmed that the Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary force, had detained the Indian guard. An Indian official said the government was seeking Mr. Shaw\u2019s return according to established protocols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are worried about his safety,\u201d Rahul Shaw, his nephew, said. \u201cThe B.S.F. has told us that they will bring him back safely,\u201d he added, referring to the Border Security Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The guard has an 8-year-old son, and his wife is pregnant with their second child, his nephew said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kalyan Banerjee, a member of the Indian Parliament for the state of West Bengal, said senior Indian security officials had assured him that Mr. Shaw was in good health and that the government was making \u201cevery possible effort\u201d to get him back to India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The exact details of how Mr. Shaw, a guard with nearly two decades of service, ended up detained are not clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The security arrangements along some parts of the border can be complicated. Farms on the Indian side often abut a middle ground between Indian and Pakistani territory known as the zero point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In many villages, India\u2019s Border Security Force oversees villagers\u2019 access to their farms, issuing them identification cards and keeping a close watch on their activities, including when they tend their fields during designated hours. Accidental border crossings occasionally take place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Shaw\u2019s detention in some ways recalls the last major face-off between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, which came in 2019 after a deadly terrorist attack on Indian security forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After India conducted airstrikes, the Pakistani side <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/27\/world\/asia\/kashmir-india-pakistan-aircraft.html\" title=\"\">shot down an Indian jet<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/01\/world\/asia\/india-pakistan-plane-abhinandan-varthaman-india.html\" title=\"\">arrested its pilot<\/a>. His fate became part of the process that led to de-escalation between the two adversaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">K.J. Singh, a retired Indian general who led the country\u2019s Western Command, said the fact that border soldiers often accidentally stray across the demarcation line makes it less of an equivalent with the detention of the pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Singh said he was hopeful that the bargaining over the border guard might rise little higher than the usual levels in such cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Zia ur-Rehman<!-- --> contributed reporting from Lahore, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/world\/asia\/pakistan-india-border-guard-detained.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detention of an Indian border guard by Pakistani forces has injected another element of tension into the already volatile confrontation between the two countries after last week\u2019s deadly terrorist attack in Kashmir. The family of the Indian border guard, Purnam Kumar Shaw, who is part of the paramilitary Border Security Force, has expressed concern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/28\/multimedia\/28int-india-pakistan-ckpv\/28int-india-pakistan-ckpv-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[756,169713,196,10454,7509,273,1025,3096,264,15892,571],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292452,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292450\/revisions\/292452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}