Indian Officials Say Pakistan Ramping Up Drone Activity Along LoC Amid Infiltration Pressure

Indian security officials, cited in wire reporting published September 16, 2026 and syndicated across multiple outlets, said Pakistan has intensified drone activity along the Line of Control in recent weeks, deploying Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) drones and Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 platforms to map Indian troop positions ahead of possible infiltration bids and to resupply weapons to local terror networks. An Intelligence Bureau official said 'all conventional methods of infiltration have failed in the last many months,' attributing the drone escalation to that desperation. Officials noted drones have separately been used to smuggle arms, ammunition and narcotics, particularly into Punjab, and pointed to an August search operation in Rajouri triggered by a suspected Pakistani drone sighting as part of the same pattern. No specific new drone incursion incident was reported as having occurred on September 16 itself — the reporting describes an assessed trend rather than a single event.