90 Pakistani drones shot down in a year: BSF Chief

NEW DELHI: The Border Safety Power shot down 81 drones in Punjab and 9 in Rajasthan in over a yr, although Pakistan Rangers at all times deny use of its territory for sending drones into India, BSF director basic Nitin Agarwal has mentioned.

Drones carry narcotics, arms and improvised explosive gadgets, Agarwal mentioned in Hazaribagh on Thursday in the course of the annual information convention on the eve of BSF elevating day.

Punjab has a 553 km border with Pakistan and smuggling of narcotics via the land border from Pakistan has been a reason behind main concern. The Nationwide Investigation Company is probing the nexus between narcotic smugglers and gangsters. The variety of drone sightings on the India-Pakistan border has elevated to 300, in comparison with 268 in 2022, 109 in 2021, 49 in 2020 and 35 in 2019, all inside a spread of 2-10 km on the border. BSF guards the worldwide border with Pakistan in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

“Now we have seized about 1,000 kg of heroin from alongside the japanese (India-Bangladesh) and western entrance (India-Pak border) over the past yr. BSF has additionally deployed a hand-held static and vehicle-mounted anti-drone system to counter rising menace of drones on the Indo-Pak border,” the DG mentioned.

“The drones that we shoot down and seize are largely made in China and largely Chinese language DJI,” he mentioned.