For more than two decades, Pakistan has been fighting a war that many outside the region barely understand. It began with suicide bombers walking into mosques, markets and military installations. Now it has reached the skies. Last week, crude drones launched from across the Afghan border attempted to enter Pakistani airspace. Pakistan’s air defence systems […]
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From Suicide Bombers to Suicide Drones
The Taliban regime across the border has mastered the art of sending two things into Pakistan. The first is suicide bombers, dispatched to kill and destroy in our cities. The second is suicide drones, launched to hover over our homes and spread fear. Two exports. Both designed to terrorize. There are moments in a nation’s […]
Pakistan develops jamming gun to counter cross-border suicide drones
Pakistan has developed a countermeasure to cross?border suicide drones: the Sufra drone jamming gun, which officials say can disable kamikaze drones and their controllers at 1.5 kilometres. “The gun can be installed along national borders and deployed at major public events in cities,” Hamza Khalid said at the Maritime Expo in Karachi on Wednesday. The […]