QUETTA: In a major counter-terror breakthrough, Iranian border authorities at Rimdan crossing intercepted a suspected smuggling operation involving high-grade drone components hidden in a women’s shopping bus that had crossed over from Pakistan.
As per details, the bus, carrying women from Turbat, Pasni, and Gwadar, was headed for Zainab Bazaar in Chabahar to buy wedding jewelry. Everything seemed normal until a suspicious outline appeared on a scanner at the Iranian customs terminal.
Iranian border personnel immediately separated five suitcases for manual inspection. Inside, they found carbon fiber arms, electronic speed controllers, motors, and lithium polymer batteries—components often used in advanced drones. A woman named Mehar Parah, claiming to be a BYC (Baloch Yakjehti Committee) guide, insisted the items were “just cheap toy drones” bought in Quetta. But Iranian authorities weren’t convinced. They alerted the joint IRGC-ISI liaison cell.
Within 15 minutes, Pakistan’s Anti-Smuggling Unit deployed at Gabd shared intelligence confirming the real story. The serial codes engraved on each component—IAI-T6045 and EL/M-MRS-92—matched stolen entries from Israeli drone manufacturer IAI’s export database. These codes had also appeared in data retrieved earlier this month from a microSD card seized from Rakesh Pali, a captured Indian intelligence operative in Iran’s Rask region.
Further investigations revealed a key link: BLA’s drone engineer, Nooruddin aka “Professor,” had been requesting these exact parts via a secure app from a militant hideout in Mand’s mountain belt. His plan was to assemble low-altitude explosive drones targeting CPEC projects. Security forces recovered a hard copy of the plan containing the RAW Electronics Division logo and a technical analysis of Israeli-supplied parts.
This wasn’t the first attempt. Back in April, authorities at the Taftan crossing intercepted similar drone assembly kits hidden in a food supply van. At the time, officials dismissed them as toy helicopters. But this latest discovery confirms that BYC repeatedly used women-led cross-border shopping trips to smuggle explosive drone kits. Meanwhile, BLA’s technical unit was tasked with weaponizing them.
Investigations now point to the same terror supply chain that Iranian forces exposed during their Chabahar operation—an underground network involving India’s RAW, Israeli black market vendors, and militant outfits like BLA and BYC.
Arrests have revealed a chilling reality: BLA and BYC operatives not only threaten Balochistan’s peace but also Iran’s national security.
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This tri-national model of terrorism—RAW’s funding, Mossad’s technical aid, and BLA-BYC’s field logistics—now stands fully exposed.
