Pak Drone Fired by Border Force

Pushed It Back Across Punjab Border…

Gurdaspur: Another incident of infringement of airspace by a suspected Pakistani drone has come to light in Punjab's border area.

BSF jawans fired at a Pakistani drone and forced it to return to the Pakistani side, at the Kalampur border, in Gurdaspur.

Prabhakar Joshi, DIG BSF in a statement said, "A Pakistani drone was spotted by the Border Security Force (BSF) jawans at the Kalampur border outpost, on Sunday, January 1, at around 10.10 PM.

The BSF jawans from the 89 battalion fired more than 20 rounds at the drone and fired three illumination bombs following which the drone went back to Pakistan."

According to BSF, this is the third instance of a Pakistani drone being spotted on the Indian side in the last three days and of the BSF jawans on duty firing at it and forcing it back to Pakistan.

In 2022, a total of 22 drones were also captured by the army jawans, said BSF in a statement.

In addition, last year, according to BSF, a total of 316 Kg of drugs were seized by the BSF and two Pakistani intruders were killed by the BSF along the Punjab border.

The BSF spokesperson said in a statement that, "The troops of the Punjab Frontier have maintained an extremely high level of alertness and vigil.

As a result, BSF has successfully detected and captured 22 drones and seized 316.988 kgs of heroin, 67 weapons, 850 rounds and killed two Pakistan intruders and apprehended 23 Pakistan nationals in various incidents."