THOUGH the import of drone is under ban at individual level attempts to make such import illegally increased significantly in the recent months raising concern to aviation safety and civil security. A report published in The New Nation on Monday said at least 65 drones, imported illegally were seized by the Customs Authorities at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport during the last six months and the importers remained unidentified with false names and fake addresses. The ban on import of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) was imposed, as the authorities fear of its misuse at a time when militancy and fear of attack on security establishments capture the mind of law enforcement agencies all the more. However import remains permissible by government and non-government organizations and business firms with prior clearance from the concerned government agencies.
Drones were created initially for military operations. The USA is using it to hit hidden terrorist gangs and high value adversaries in countries fighting local warlords. Israel is using it from the air to eliminate political and military leaders in occupied Palestine in their homes or in running vehicles. A highly developed drone is a highly dangerous device that hits target in high precision that never allows a person to escape.
But it is also used in variety of other fields including monitoring power plants, disaster management, TV programmes shooting, news broadcast and capturing footage from sky. Such use of the device is highly supportive to execute activities smoothly but fear of subversive use of the device remains equally open that forced the authorities to put ban on its import at individual level. The unauthorized import of drones thus opens questions who are those persons imported these devices and the Customs Authorities at the Airport had to seize them as importers did not show up to release them.
The report that the seized drones were imported through false declarations using fake names and address of business firms appears more suspicious. Definitely there may be ill-motives behind such illegal import and it is important to find out the identity of those importers to make sure what purpose they wanted to serve by these drones. Why they did not seek permission and the fact that they did not take delivery of them at the Airport suggests that they have ill-motives.
The nation is passing an uneasy time. Frequent encounters of the law enforcers with militants call for utmost attention to deny them the possession of any such device to hit targets that may cause immense casualties. There is no scope for relaxation in security measures. We believe that the concerned authorities must go deeper into who made those imports instead of chasing innocent people on suspicious grounds.
Drones were created initially for military operations. The USA is using it to hit hidden terrorist gangs and high value adversaries in countries fighting local warlords. Israel is using it from the air to eliminate political and military leaders in occupied Palestine in their homes or in running vehicles. A highly developed drone is a highly dangerous device that hits target in high precision that never allows a person to escape.
But it is also used in variety of other fields including monitoring power plants, disaster management, TV programmes shooting, news broadcast and capturing footage from sky. Such use of the device is highly supportive to execute activities smoothly but fear of subversive use of the device remains equally open that forced the authorities to put ban on its import at individual level. The unauthorized import of drones thus opens questions who are those persons imported these devices and the Customs Authorities at the Airport had to seize them as importers did not show up to release them.
The report that the seized drones were imported through false declarations using fake names and address of business firms appears more suspicious. Definitely there may be ill-motives behind such illegal import and it is important to find out the identity of those importers to make sure what purpose they wanted to serve by these drones. Why they did not seek permission and the fact that they did not take delivery of them at the Airport suggests that they have ill-motives.
The nation is passing an uneasy time. Frequent encounters of the law enforcers with militants call for utmost attention to deny them the possession of any such device to hit targets that may cause immense casualties. There is no scope for relaxation in security measures. We believe that the concerned authorities must go deeper into who made those imports instead of chasing innocent people on suspicious grounds.
