Pigeon With Tag, Pink Patch Triggers "Pak Spy" Alarm In Jammu And Kashmir

[Disir]

New Delhi/Srinagar:
Arresting spies is not unusual for the Jammu and Kashmir Police but the Hira Nagar Police Station in Kathua district was left more than a little confounded on Monday when the latest detainee - a pigeon - was handed over to them by the Border Security Force.

The pigeon, with a prominent pink patch and a tag on its leg, was logged as a "Pak Suspected Spy" in police station records on suspicion of being part of an espionage attempt from across border and an investigation launched.

Pigeon With Tag, Pink Patch Triggers "Pak Spy" Alarm In Jammu And Kashmir

Arresting spies is not unusual for the Jammu and Kashmir Police but the Hira Nagar Police Station in Kathua district was left more than a little confounded on Monday when the latest detainee - a pigeon - was handed over to them by the Border Security Force.

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‘Spy’ pigeon caught flying along International Border along J&K’s Kathua

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kathua, Shalinder Kumar Mishra said the pigeon was flying over Manyari village in Hiranagar sector along the IB and had flown in from the Pakistan side.

indianexpress.com

Had no idea spy pigeon's were a thing.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Hey, we used carrier pigeons as recently as WWII.

 

[ABikerSailor]

And, to tell you the truth, sending messages via pigeon is much more secure and secret than any phone call, e-mail or text message ever could be, as the birds are trained to fly in between 2 points. The only people who know that messages are being passed back and forth are the ones sending them, and the ones receiving them. Can't hack a carrier pigeon, all you can do is capture it and hope it has the message with it.