attari following the foiled intrusion bid of a boat from pakistan off the coast of gujarat and ceasefire violation in jammu and kashmir the border security force bsf has stepped up vigil all along the 553km international border of punjab to avert any temerarious bid by ultras of pakbased terror outfits to inspect the preparedness and boost the morale of force bsf inspector general frontier anil paliwal visited amritsar sector on saturday talking to toi paliwal said every jawan and officer of bsf was vigilant on the border and maximum personnel had been deployed to check transborder crime including smuggling and infiltration he said due to foggy winter nights at the international border bsf was carrying out operation alert our troops and officers are taking rounds on the border and are vigilant to prevent any crossborder crime the ig said ig paliwal also informed that bsf had intensified its night patrolling to cover maximum area in reply to a question over an advertisement published on saturday putting responsibility of checking smuggling of drugs from international borders on the central agencies he said we are focused on checking infiltration on the border yes drugs are a major problem and our focus is both on checking infiltration and drugs smuggling and we have been doing that successfully he added that on january 2 bsf had seized 5kg of heroin from the indopak border on january 5 ruling sad badal has proposed to hold a rally in the border areas of punjab to create awareness against drugs earlier the party had announced a dharna against bsf holding it responsible for influx of drugs from pakistan but changed its programme after pressure from various quarters asked whether allegations by politicians lowered the morale of bsf troops paliwal said i will talk only about our professional role morale of our personnel and officers is high and thats why they are performing their duty in biting cold