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The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will
provide the Army’s Border Roads
Organization (BRO) security from
Taliban and al Qaeda while they
construct the crucial road linking
Zalranj to Delaram to link Iran with
Afghanistan. The BRO has been under
constant attack from Taliban and al
Qaeda when not protected and last year
a BRO employee was decapitated in a
gruesome manner.
The
ITBP already has 2500 personnel in
Afghanistan on this secretive project
and is to augment their force by
another 300 troops. The BRO has an
estimated 291 workers with an
additional 600 from private agencies.
In light of attacks, the ITBP is
consolidating outposts so they are not
surprised with an unusually large
force.
The
ITBP has vast experience in protection
duty in Pakistan and Sri Lanka and
have participated in peacekeeping
operations in Congo and Kosovo.
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