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Wave of drug-carrying drones flying into India from Pakistan, officials say
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Given the longstanding animosity between the two nuclear-armed neighbours, who have gone to war four times, Indian border officials said the growing number of drones coming over from Pakistan – using increasingly advanced technology – presented a significant security risk.
Smuggling between Pakistan and India has gone on for decades, with everything from camels and carrier pigeons to human traffickers and underground pipes being used to ferry drugs and other goods across the heavily guarded border.
BSF said drones were responsible for about 60% of the drug-smuggling in the state in 2023, driving up trade significantly, as well as adding a “new dimension” to protecting the security of India’s border.
In green rice paddy fields adjacent to Punjabi village of Attari, 2km from the border with Pakistan, BSF officers took the Guardian to the site where a drone carrying 5kg of heroin had been brought down the day before, after a tip-off.
The officer said they had no communication with their counterparts over the border but given the growing scale of the infiltration, they suspected Pakistan officials were turning a blind eye.
Nirmal Singh, a 60-year-old retired army officer living near Attari, described how three days previously he had been sitting on his porch when he saw a drone coming towards his fields.
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