Third time in a row the Pakistani drone has been spotted again on the Indian side on duty. BSF jawans are reported to have fired at a Pakistani drone and pushed back to the Pakistani side at the Kalampur border outpost, Gurdaspur.
Prabhakar Joshi, DIG BSF 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 20 rounds at the drone and fired three illumination bombs following which the drone went back to Pakistan.”
In the year 2022, in total of 22 drones were captured by the jawans. Moreover, 316 kg drugs were siezed and two Pakistani intruders killed in the Punjab border. According to the security agencies, there has been a threefold increase in drone sighting incidents.
