India Gets Intel About Drone Attacks on Border

BEIJING, April 27, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at the leaders' roundtable meeting of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Yanqi Lake International Convention Center in Beijing, capital of China, April 27, 2019. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei/IANS)

Pakistan will use drones to bomb security establishments near the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s RS Pura and Samba sectors, the intelligence wing of the Border Security Force (BSF) has alerted…reports India Daily News

The security establishments, including the Indian Army, have been informed about the plans of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to carry out the attacks in Indian territory.

The BSF had alerted other security forces about Pakistan’s activities earlier this week.

Pakistan has increased bombardment in the Indian territories, while China has started transgression in Eastern Ladakh by creating a two-front war-like situation.

The BSF, India’s first line of defence with Pakistan and Bangladesh, has also alerted that “ISI plans to pump in a consignment of drugs/arms/ammunitions inside India with the help of drones”.

It guards around 2,280 kms of the front with Pakistan and the 4,096-km-long Indo-Bangla border.

A senior BSF officer said that activities have increased across the International Border with Pakistan in Jammu and Punjab after terrorists were unable to infiltrate across Line of Control in Kashmir.

On Saturday, the BSF shot dead five Pakistani intruders along the Tarn Taran sector of Punjab and seized multiple weapons and drugs.

The officer said that the five armed Pakistani nationals had entered the Indian territory overnight on Friday and were hiding across the fence.

The alert troops of BSF’s 103rd Battalion noticed suspicious movement at night at the Dal outpost under the Khalra police station of Tarn Taran district.

Around 4.45 a.m. on a Saturday morning, as the troopers started searching the area, they were fired upon. The BSF soldiers retaliated in self-defence killing the five intruders.

On June 20, a Pakistani drone, loaded with a sophisticated rifle and some grenades, was shot down by the BSF along the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir.

It was the first such incident in the Jammu region when a drone carrying arms and explosives was shot down by the BSF.

In 2019, Punjab Police had recovered Pakistani drones used to airdrop arms and ammunition in border areas of the state.

The BSF had also sighted many high-flying drones along with Punjab along the international border.

Luxury club

Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, Pakistan’s Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS), has defended the construction of a ‘luxury club, terming it a sports facility that had been established on the federal governments directive after obtaining approval of environmental experts.

Abbasi in a written report submitted to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday asserted that the National Water Sports Centre (NWSC) was “neither a club in the traditional sense nor is it a commercial enterprise”, reports Dawn news.

Zafar Mahmood Abbasi

While allowing naval officials to resume maintenance and repair of boats, the IHC had recently extended its stay order against all commercial activities in the club till September 9.

The present structure is only an upgraded version of what had been established some 25 years ago.

As per the naval chief, the upgrade of the facilities to the international standard would help in tapping young talented men and women in the north and training them in water sports to compete at international level thereby bringing laurels to the country.

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