White nets stretch high across the front of brick buildings in Pakistan’s northern border region, a tactic borrowed from the Ukrainian battlefield to protect police against the latest terrorist threat — drones.
Resembling fishing nets, the mesh lacks the sophistication of other military hardware.
Their use shows how lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating on distant fronts such as Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defences against terrorists armed with the cheap, easily obtainable devices.