New Delhi: Three Combat Canines which are part of the ITBP command security contingent in Afghanistan will soon be deployed with an anti-naxal operating unit operating in Chhattisgarh, officials said on Wednesday.
Three Dogs – Roobi (A Belgian Women’s Malinois Breed), Maya (Labrador Wanita) and Bobby (Men Doberman) – have been sent to Kennel Dogs specialized in the ITBP camp in the Chhawla Delhi South-West area after they landed Airbase Hindon in Ghaziabad on Tuesday Onboard flights of special military evacuation from Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban.
The dogs serve for about three years with the contingent Indo-Tibetan (ITBP) border police guarding the Indian embassy in the Capital of Afghanistan Kabul and diplomatic staff.
“Three dogs detect many improvised (IED) explosive devices and protect life not only Indian diplomats but also local Afghan civilians who work at the embassy.” “They will soon be deployed by the ITBP unit that conducts anti-Maoists operations in Chhattisgarh,” the official source said.
The dogs raised and trained at the ITBP National Training Center for Dogs (NTCD) in Bhanu near Chandigarh before being sent for overseas assignments.
The dogs are part of 150 members of the Indian contingent, including 99 ITBP commands, who took the IAF plane on Tuesday morning from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to reach Hindon through the termination of refueling in Jamnagar in Gujarat.
With this de-induction, all the force power, which is mainly assigned to maintain the actual control line (LAC) with China, has been drawn from the country including all diplomats and embassy staff.
India has deployed more than 300 ITBP commands to secure the embassy, ​​consulate, and diplomat in Afghanistan.
First was deployed to secure the Kabul Embassy and its residents in November 2002.
Then sent additional detachments to also Indian consulate guards located in Jalalabad, Kandthar, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.
The Consulate detachment has been withdrawn after they closed recently because of the current crisis in the country and also because of footsteps that can be ignored when the coronavirus pandemic grips the world.
Some commandos returned from Kabul on previous flights.