With intelligence input of JeM training ‘underwater wing’ planning to carry attacks, Navy prepares to thwart attempt

New Delhi, August 26: With the ongoing tension mongering between India and Pakistan, India has kept its security forces very vigilant and alert. Working on the same, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh on Monday said that an ‘underwater wing’ of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is training people to carry out attacks but the Indian Navy is fully prepared to thwart any such attempt.

 

The Navy Chief added that all stakeholders in coastal security are ensuring that there is no intrusion from the sea. He mentioned that the team had received intelligence (input) that an underwater wing of Jaish-e-Mohammed is training people to carry out attacks from water and that is one change.

Admiral Singh was answering a query on the changing form of terror and the Navy's response to them. Speaking about heightened vigil along the country's coast since the deadly 26/11 sea-borne terror attacks on Mumbai in 2008, he said the Navy was overall in-charge of maritime security.

"The Indian Navy, maritime police, state governments and other stakeholders are making sure there is no intrusion from the sea," the Navy chief stated. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a lecture, titled 'Indian Ocean — Changing Dynamic — Maritime Security Imperatives for India', which is part of a series held in the memory of the late Army chief General B C Joshi.

After the Balakot airstrike, India has kept a strict vigilance over all its security forces. Be it the Indian Army, Indian Navy or the Indian Air Force, the forces have been alert and have acted swiftly on any suspicious activity.