In a goodwill gesture, the Border Security Force (BSF) today handed over a 50-year-old Pakistani national who had inadvertently crossed into Indian territory yesterday, back to his country.
BSF troops at the Noorwala border outpost in Ferozepur sector had apprehended a Pakistani national on March 19 as he inadvertently crossed the international boundary and entered Indian territory near a border security fence, a BSF official said today.
Official said Pakistan Rangers were contacted today and the Pakistani national was handed over to them on humanitarian grounds.
BSF official said so far five Pakistanis in year 2017, who had inadvertently crossed into Indian territory, were handed over to Pakistan Rangers by Border Security Force, Punjab Frontier.
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