ITBP canines who served nation for three years evacuated from Kabul to India

New Delhi, Aug 19: Three sniffer dogs - Maya, Ruby and Bobby - have returned to India after serving three years with Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) commandos in Afghanistan.

 

The three ITBP sniffer dogs were airlifted along with 99 commandos of the ITBP, 30 diplomats and 21 civilians from Kabul after India evacuated its embassy and all its staff from Afghanistan post its capture by the Taliban.

 

 

The special flight, C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the IAF had took off from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Tuesday morning with 120 people, including the Indian ambassador and embassy staff made a brief halt at Gujarat's Jamnagar airforce base before landing at Hindon Indian Air Force Base in Ghaziabad in the evening.

 

 

The dogs that were part of the K-9 sniffer dog squad part of the 150-member paramilitary personnel deployed at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, had a challenging task in ensuring the safety of all Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials positioned at the Indian Embassy.

 

 

According to the reports, the canines were trained at the ITBP Centre NTCD (National Training Centre for Dogs), Bhanu, in Panchkula and were deployed at the Indian Embassy in Kabul sometime in 2019. According to ITBP, they worked with zero errors to sniff out terror and secure Indian assets in Kabul.