The Indian Army on Thursday recovered a bag containing a yellow tiffin box, dozens of ammunition rounds, and drugs after a Pakistan-origin drone dropped it in the Khari area of Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.
This comes after alert security forces noticed the drone near the Line of Control (LoC), and launched a massive search operation to track the drone till the spot where it made the drop.
A bomb disposal squad was soon called to assess the contents of the bag, especially the yellow tiffin box, which was suspected to be an improvised explosive device (IED), as per a Daily Excelsior report.
A suspected Pakistani drone drops a bag containing explosives and narcotics near the LoC in Poonch’s Gulpur sector. Army troops fire, forcing the drone to retreat to PoK. A joint @adgpi and @JmuKmrPolice search is underway.@airnewsalerts @Poonch_Police
Report: @anubhav_misri pic.twitter.com/OEZdo60xgd
— Akashvani News Jammu (@radionews_jammu) January 1, 2026
The search operation is being intensified to check if the drone made any other such drops in Indian areas along the LoC, said to be 740-776km long.
This comes just days after the Kashmir Police seized an abandoned drone near the LoC at Poonch, 270km away from multiple rounds of abandoned AK-series rifle ammunition that were found abandoned at Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur.
Though officials claimed that the drone was not a military one, but rather a civilian one, used for taking photos at occassions like weddings, the location of the drone discovery still sparked fears of espionage.
This comes amid the Indian Army intensifying its counter-terrorism operations across the Kishtwar and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir, despite the biting cold.
Though the 40-day period of Chillai Kalan—the harshest phase of Kashmir’s winter from December 21 to January 31—is typically associated with a decline in terrorist activity as heavy snowfall changes the landscape, the Army has still decided to pursue and neutralise terrorists who might try to sneak into India using the weather conditions to their advantage.
This also involved creating temporary bases and surveillance posts deep inside snow-covered terrain to maintain continuous pressure on potential terrorist hideouts.
In fact, reports say Jammu harbours about 30-35 active terrorists from affiliated to Pakistan-based terror outfits. |
