{"id":1026657,"date":"2026-08-06T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026657"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:24:11","slug":"pakistans-drug-syndicates-use-encrypted-apps-to-guide-drone-drops-of-narcotics-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/pakistans-drug-syndicates-use-encrypted-apps-to-guide-drone-drops-of-narcotics-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s drug syndicates use encrypted apps to guide drone drops of narcotics in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: Pakistan-based drug syndicates are increasingly relying on encrypted messaging platforms such as Skred and Zangi, along with virtual numbers, GPS-enabled drones and forged KYC-based SIM cards, to coordinate the smuggling of narcotics and weapons into Punjab while evading detection. <\/p>\n<p>The drones are used to ferry illegal consignments across the border and drop them at designated locations. Local couriers retrieve the consignments within hours using coordinates shared through encrypted communication platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHANDIGARH: Pakistan-based drug syndicates are increasingly relying on encrypted messaging platforms such as Skred and Zangi, along with virtual numbers, GPS-enabled drones and forged KYC-based SIM cards, to coordinate the smuggling of narcotics and weapons into Punjab while evading detection. The drones are used to ferry illegal consignments across the border and drop them at designated locations. Local couriers retrieve the consignments within hours using coordinates shared through encrypted communication platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026671,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026657\/revisions\/1026671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}