(G.N.S) Dt. 1

Amritsar

The issue of Pakistan using drones and quadcopters to smuggle drugs and weapons has increased since 2019. Security personnel usually find heroin packets attached to the drones. In some cases, they have also found Chinese pistols tied to the drones. While this was an issue constrained to the Indo-Pak border, security personnel have started spotting drones with drugs near the Rajasthan border too.

BSF officials have said that most drones they recover or shoot down are manufactured in China and have batteries manufactured by a Karachi-based company.

A forensic analysis of a drone shot down by security forces in Amritsar, Punjab, last December showed that it was flown in parts of China and then in Pakistan before it was used to smuggle drugs across the Indo-Pak border, officials aware of the matter said.