Tighten security: Intelligence agencies to Mizoram govt after Pahalgam terror attack
Aizawl: Intelligence agencies have reportedly advised the Mizoram govt to tighten security in view of Tuesday's terror attacks in Jammu & Kashmir's Pahalgam leaving 26 tourists dead, a senior state police official said on Thursday.
The official told TOI that the possibility of terror outfits creating law-and-order problems and even attacks by infiltrating through 318km-long Mizoram-Bangladesh border and also through neighbouring states like Assam and Tripura cannot be ruled out in view of the alleged influx of illegal migrants in the two states from Bangladesh.
He said the security along the Bangladesh border has been beefed up after the turmoil in the neighbouring country especially after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted during early Aug last year. Security has also been tightened in southern Mizoram's Lawngtlai district bordering Myanmar ang Bangladesh to prevent possible infiltration by militant groups after the Arakan Army (AA) captured all Myanmar army camps along the western Rakhine state of Myanmar bordering Bangladesh.
In accordance with the Centre's instructions, preventive measures have also been in place to guard the border areas to avert influx of Rohingya Muslims from refugee camps in Bangladesh and also from Rakhine state where the community has been facing persecution from the Myanmar military junta as well as the AA militants.
Situated in a strategic location and surrounded by trouble-torn countries of Myanmar and Bangladesh and also ethnic strife-hit Manipur, Mizoram has become a home for over 41,000 refugees and internally displaced people, including 33,023 people from Myanmar as of Tuesday. There are also over 2,000 refugees belonging to the Bawm community who are ethnic Mizos taking shelter in Lawngtlai district at present.
"The state govt has been exploring all possibilities to maintain peace in Mizoram, which is one of the most peaceful states in the country, despite being flooded with refugees as the state is sandwiched between Myanmar and Bangladesh with which the state is sharing a total 722km-long international border with the two neighbouring countries," a home department official said.
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