{"id":60765,"date":"2023-12-27T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/27\/wave-of-drug-carrying-drones-flying-into-india-from-pakistan-officials-say"},"modified":"2023-12-27T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:00:56","slug":"wave-of-drug-carrying-drones-flying-into-india-from-pakistan-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60765","title":{"rendered":"Wave of drug-carrying drones flying into India from Pakistan, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Border officers say most drones carry opium and heroin, fuelling a drugs crisis in Punjab, while others drop weapons<\/p>\n<p>Indian border security have said they are battling an unprecedented \u201cdrone menace\u201d infiltrating the border with Pakistan, fuelling the drugs crisis in the state of Punjab and raising serious security issues.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from India\u2019s border security force (BSF) in the border state of Punjab told the Guardian they had intercepted 90 drones from Pakistan so far in 2023, the highest on record. They said the number was \u201cincreasing every month\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/27\/wave-of-drug-carrying-drones-flying-into-india-from-pakistan-officials-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border officers say most drones carry opium and heroin, fuelling a drugs crisis in Punjab, while others drop weaponsIndian border security have said they are battling an unprecedented \u201cdrone menace\u201d infiltrating the border with Pakistan, fuelling the d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60766,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60765\/revisions\/60766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}