Pakistani drone shot down by BSF along international border in Punjab | India News

Amritsar (Punjab): Border Security Forces shot down a drone that entered India in Punjab`s Amritsar sector from the Pakistan facet on the International Border in the late hours of Monday. A senior BSF officer mentioned that the drone (Quad-copter DJI Matrice) was noticed at 8.30 pm close to Chhana village in Amritsar by BSF troops on patrolling responsibility. They instantly opened hearth and it was shot down. According to BSF officers, two packets of contraband medication 2.5 Kg had been recovered with the drone. The central authorities not too long ago shared the enter from the safety forces deployed on the India-Pakistan border to take care of such unlawful makes an attempt from the Pakistan facet.

Of the 191 drones noticed, 171 entered into Indian territory by means of the India-Pakistan border along the Punjab sector whereas 20 had been seen in the Jammu sector, a doc accessed by the ANI mentions. 

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As per the doc, the “UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) observation in Indo-Pak border was seen in Punjab and Jammu frontier with effect from January 1, 2022, to September 30, 2022”.The paperwork additional reveal that almost all of those drones or UAVs managed to flee whereas a complete of seven have been shot down by the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, who’re deployed along the India-Pakistan border to maintain a tab on such unlawful actions being orchestrated by Pakistan`s Inter-Services Intelligence.

Among seven drones shot down this 12 months between January 1 to September 15 had been noticed in Punjab`s Amritsar, Ferozpur and Abohar areas. Officials in the BSF informed ANI that drones are getting used by Pakistan`s facet to move weapons, explosives and narcotics throughout the international border in Jammu and Punjab from Pakistan. The elevated drone exercise throughout the border was dropped at the discover of Home Minister Amit Shah in the safety evaluate assembly in Srinagar not too long ago with prime safety and intelligence chiefs in attendance.

While BSF, which guards the international border with Pakistan in the Jammu sector, believes that it has been capable of repel drones carrying arms, ammunition and explosives from Pakistan, the state police and the intelligence businesses differ with this evaluation. The safety forces have seized numerous AK collection assault rifles, pistols, MP4 carbines, carbine magazines, excessive explosive grenades in addition to narcotics which had been transported into Indian territory from Pakistan from the drones shot down to date.

As per safety businesses, BSF intelligence inputs and Jammu and Kashmir Police officers, the drones are additionally used to drop packets of Afghan heroin for financing terror operations in the Valley and Punjab. 

It is learnt that the group behind the transportation of weapons, explosives and medicines is Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and different terror outfits which have camps throughout the International Boundary and are backed by ISI. The Home Ministry is learnt to have directed the involved businesses to search out out an answer to cease drone actions and in the meantime safety businesses and legislation enforcement forces are requested to maintain a particular watch on such actions.