In the year 2021 there were as many as 68 drone sightings in India and this has raised concerns over a new security threat. The Border Security Force is looking for ways to detect the smaller drones that have been used to smuggle in narcotics and arms from Pakistan.
The investigations that have been conducted into the various drone sightings in the country have established that they are coming in from Pakistan and have been extensively used by terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad both in Jammu and Kashmir as well as Kashmir.
These made in China drones are being provided to the terrorist groups by the ISI.
In January the Intelligence Bureau had said that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba held a meeting of its top commanders in Pakistan during which their drone strategy against India was discussed.
An IB officer tells OneIndia that during a meeting with the top commanders of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad at Taxila in the Punjab province, it was decided to carry out small bomb attacks closer to the border using the Chinese commercial drones.
The ISI also had a follow up meeting in Kotla district of Pakistan occupied Kashmir to take stock of the plan that had been set in motion, the IB officer cited above said. Security officials said that it would be particularly challenging to tackle this issue given the fact that the heavy winter with the fog in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab will make anti-drone operations even harder.
On the rising day of the Border Security Force, its director general, Rakesh Asthana had spoken about the challenge, while pointing out that a drone had been intercepted with a huge load of weapons and ammunition in Jammu’s Kathua sector on June 20 2020.
In the past couple of months, the Intelligence Bureau has raised concerns about Pakistan using bigger drones to smuggle in arms and ammunition in Jammu and Kashmir.
