Editing Border Security Force (section)

== History ==
Since [[India|India's]] [[Indian independence movement|independence]] in 1947, the protection of its international boundaries was the responsibility of the local police in each border state, with little inter-state coordination.<ref name="bsf.nic.in1">{{cite web |title=Introduction Border Security Force |url=http://bsf.nic.in/en/introduction.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206040944/http://bsf.nic.in/en/introduction.html |archive-date=6 February 2015 |website=bsf.nic.in}}</ref> However, during the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1965]], Pakistan attacked Sardar Post, Char Bet, and Beria Bet on April 9, 1965, in Kutch. This attack exposed the inadequacy of the State Armed Police in coping with armed aggression. Thus, after the war, the government created the Border Security Force as a unified central agency with the specific mandate of guarding India's international borders. This act brought greater cohesion to border security. [[K F Rustamji]], from the Indian Police Service, was the first Director General of the BSF. Since it was a new force, the officers had to be deputed or inducted from outside to fill the various vacancies at different levels until the force's own cadre matured sufficiently. For this reason, emergency commissioned officers and SS officers of the Indian Army were inducted in large numbers into the force, along with IPS officers who were deputed to the force for high-level appointments.<ref name="bsf.nic.in1"/>

The BSF's capabilities were used in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]] against [[Pakistani Armed Forces|Pakistani forces]] in areas where the [[Military of India|Regular Forces]] were thinly spread. BSF troops took part in several operations, including the famous [[Battle of Longewala]]. In fact, for the BSF the war on the eastern front had started well before the war actually broke out in December 1971. BSF had trained, supported and formed part of [[Mukti Bahini]] and had entered erstwhile East Pakistan before the actual hostilities broke out. The BSF played a very important role in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Liberation of Bangladesh]], which [[Indira Gandhi]] and [[Sheikh Mujibur Rehman]] had also acknowledged.

{{see also|Director General of the Border Security Force}}
[[Khusro Faramurz Rustamji|K.F. Rustamji]], IPS,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bsf.nic.in/en/Gallary_Ex-DG.html|title=Border Security Force -Photo Gallary(Civic)|work=bsf.nic.in|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160726185404/http://bsf.nic.in/en/Gallary_Ex-DG.html|archive-date=26 July 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> was appointed as the first Director General of Border Security Force from July 22, 1965, to September 30, 1972, and the current DG (additional charge) is [[Daljit Singh Chaudhary]], [[Indian Police Service|IPS]], since August 3, 2024.<ref>{{cite web |date=2020 |title=DG BSF's Message |url=http://bsf.nic.in/en/DGMessage.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722162206/http://bsf.nic.in/en/DGMessage.html |archive-date=22 July 2020}}</ref>

=== Engagements ===
*[[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]
*[[Operation Blue Star]]
*[[Operation Black Thunder]]
*[[Insurgency in Punjab]] 
*[[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir]]
*[[Kargil War|Operation Vijay – Kargil War]]
*[[2001 Bangladeshi-Indian border skirmish]]es
*[[2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff|2001–2002 Operation Parakram – India-Pakistan Standoff]]
*[[2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes|2013 India-Pakistan Border skirmishes]]
*[[2014–15 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
*[[2016–2018 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
*[[2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes]]
*[[2025 India–Pakistan standoff]]