A Pakistani drone carrying 10 kg of heroin was shot down by the BSF in Punjab on Monday night.

"Yesterday around 11.15 pm, our soldiers heard the humming of a drone flying over the border fence from the Pakistan side and fired 9 shots toward the flying object,” Amritsar BSF DIG B Singh said on Tuesday.

In the search that followed in the border region the BSF troops recovered a hexacopter drone with 9 packets of heroin weighing 10 kg. 

Pakistan is back at its old game of pumping drugs into India. Apart from using China-made drones to send drugs across the border, the hostile neighbour has also been using the sea route for smuggling large quantities of heroin into India.   

On April 25, a Pakistani ship was intercepted in Indian waters near the Gujarat coast with a consignment of heroin worth Rs 280 crores.

The operation to apprehend the ship named Al Haj was carried out jointly by India Coast Guard and Gujarat’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). The ship had 9 crew members on board. 

More than 80% of illegal drugs flowing into India come from Pakistan. The drug cartels have the support of the Pakistani deep state as a result of which the authorities in the neighbouring country give them a free hand to operate.

Pakistan has been weaponising the illicit drug trade which is used to fund covert terror operations against India.

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