2024-09-07 11:03:29
New Delhi: NATO, an organization of countries in Europe and North America, provides state-of-the-art military equipment to its members for defense. With which the countries associated with NATO strengthen the security of their country, but now these NATO weapons are reaching the terrorists. Punjab Police has recently taken a major action and exposed a gang smuggling weapons from across the border. On August 29 last month, a team of Punjab Police saw a Maruti Suzuki Swift car in suspicious condition at a checkpoint. When the police signaled to stop the car, the car occupants tried to escape, but stopped after hitting the police barricades. On searching the car, the police found four Glock 19 pistols, one of which had ‘Made for NATO Army’ written on it. Apart from this, four magazines, seven live cartridges and hawala money of Rs 4.8 lakh were also recovered. The recovery of weapons made for the NATO army is not an isolated case. In recent years, similar weapons have also been recovered from terrorists active in Jammu and Kashmir. Which has proved to be very dangerous for the security of the country.
How did NATO weapons reach terrorists?
In the year 2021, when the US Army went back in a hurry, it left a lot of its military equipment there. Which was later seized by the Taliban. After that, they supplied those weapons to terrorist organizations around the world. Regarding its weapons, the US Defense Department had said that the Taliban has seized US weapons worth $ 7.12 billion. It is being said that the Taliban is selling those weapons to terrorist organizations. After which terrorist organizations like Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are using those weapons against India.
NATO weapons are becoming a threat to the country
Three months ago, in May, a bomb attack on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir saw the use of another new weapon, suspected to be a ‘sticky bomb’. Four pilgrims were killed and 24 injured in the attack. Following this, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said it was investigating whether the terrorists had used sticky bombs, according to a report by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW). The use of sticky bombs by terrorists in Kashmir is a recent development and such bombs were commonly used by terrorists against NATO forces in Afghanistan before the US-led coalition forces left the war-torn country in August 2021, the report said.
Terrorists are using weapons left behind in Afghanistan
In February 2023, Major General Ajay Chandpuria of the Indian Army admitted that high-tech US-made weapons had reached Kashmir from Afghanistan. Major General Chandpuria was quoted as saying that from the weapons and equipment we recovered, we realized that high-tech weapons, including night-vision equipment, were left in Afghanistan by the US.