With intelligence reports suggesting a possible attempt by Pakistan’s ISI to push terrorists into India to strike at vital installations amid national lockdown, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has alerted the BSF to keep vigil along the western frontiers.

MHA officials said there were intelligence inputs that the ISI could attempt to push terror elements through western borders, falling in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Noting that it was an ISI-backed terror outfit only that hit a gurdwara in Kabul last week, the MHA officials said the alert should “be taken seriously”. The reports suggested that the Pakistan-based terror outfits think “It to be a right time to strike at India when the country is using all its resources in a focused manner to battle and contain the spread of Covid-19”.

Confirming the intelligence reports, a field commander of the BSF posted along the frontiers of Punjab told the Tribune that threats had always been there and the forces’ field formations were ready to take up any challenge.