Three ITBP commando security dogs, who were earlier deployed with the contingent in Afghanistan are back in India. Roobi, Maya and Bobby have secured the Indian mission in Afghanistan’s Kabul for three years and saved the lives of many Indian diplomats as well as Afghan locals. They were evacuated back to India onboard a special military from Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the nation.  

The ITBP has said that the combat dogs had done an outstanding job in securing the Indian Embassy in Kabul during the course of three years.

Roobi is a female Belgian Malinois breed while Maya is a female Labrador and Bobby is a male Doberman. 

Maya, Roobi, and Bobby are specialised in explosive detection and protected the lives of not only Indian diplomats but also the local Afghan civilians while working in the embassy in Afghanistan. They have guarded the Indian embassy for three years in the war-torn country.

The furry soldiers were raised and trained at the ITBP national training centre for dogs (NTCD) in Bhanu near Chandigarh before being sent for overseas duty.

After India’s evacuation operation in Kabul, the ITBP landed at the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad on Tuesday. They were a part of the 150 members Indian contingent, including 99 ITBP commandos, that took an IAF aircraft on from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul to reach Hindon via a refuelling halt at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

The combat canines will now serve with the border guarding forces’ anti-Naxal operations unit operating in Chhattisgarh, officials said on Wednesday.

 “They will soon be deployed with ITBP units undertaking anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh,” an official source said.

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With this de-induction, the entire
strength of the force, that is primarily tasked to guard the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) with China, has been withdrawn from that country including all
the diplomats and embassy staffers.

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India had deployed over 300 ITBP
commandos for securing its Embassy, consulates and diplomats in Afghanistan.

It
was first deployed to secure the premises of the Kabul Embassy and its
residents in November 2002.

It later sent its additional
detachments to similarly guard Indian consulates located in Jalalabad, Kandhar,
Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat.

The detachments from the consulates
have already been withdrawn after they were shut recently due to the current
crisis in the country and also due to negligible footfall as the coronavirus
pandemic gripped the globe.

Some of the commandos came back from
Kabul in earlier flights.