{"id":183912,"date":"2022-02-10T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=183912"},"modified":"2022-02-10T00:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:13:25","slug":"bsf-fires-at-pak-drone-foils-drugs-weapon-smuggling-bid-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/10\/bsf-fires-at-pak-drone-foils-drugs-weapon-smuggling-bid-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"BSF fires at Pak drone, foils drugs, weapon smuggling bid in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, Feb 9 (PTI) The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid by a drone along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior official of the force said troops fired at the drone after they heard a &#8220;buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming from the Pakistani side to the Indian side&#8221; around 1 am in the Panjgrain area of Gurdaspur sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;During search in the area of village Ghaggar and Singhoke, two packets of yellow colour with suspected contraband have been recovered so far,&#8221; the senior officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is suspected that the drone dropped the packets, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A pistol was also seen wrapped in the packet, and the consignment was found in the field about 2.7 km from the fence, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A search is on to find if the drone too was downed or if it escaped, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Feb 9 (PTI) The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid by a drone along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. A senior official of the force said troops fired at the drone after they heard a &#8220;buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}