Chandigarh: In a severe crackdown against cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics, the Border Security Force (BSF) has seized pistols, drones and heroin in separate incidents along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Ferozpur and Amritsar.

On Sunday, the BSF troops recovered a packet of heroin, weighing 553 grams, from an agricultural field near the village — Bhaini Rajputana, Amritsar.

On Saturday, acting on a tip-off provided by its intelligence wing, BSF troops on duty recovered one DJI AIR 3S drone near Daoke village in Amritsar.

The BSF troops neutralised and recovered one DJI Mavic 3 Classic drone carrying one pistol with a magazine from a farming field near Kahangarh village in Amritsar, an official statement said.

In another operation, the BSF troops recovered a pistol

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