Jammu, Nov. 30 -- The intrusion of drones originating from Pakistan emerged as a big challenge for the force guarding the border in the Jammu region.

As many as 27 Pakistani drones have been detected along the 192-km long India-Pakistan border in the Jammu region this year so far even as attempts to fuel the insurgency, including through smuggling of arms and ammunition via unmanned aerial vehicles, have been thwarted.

"As far as drones are concerned, as the issue escalated, the methods to tackle it also increased. We have a lot of resources and we have learned a lot. As a result, drone activity in the Jammu region has gone down to a great extent", Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF) Jammu frontier D K Boora said.

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