BAMIYAL, India — Indian police said they have detained a pigeon suspected of being a Pakistani spy after it was found to have a message stamped on its body.
Punjab police said a 14-year-old boy in Manwal, a village close to the Pakistani border, brought the pigeon to a police station when he noticed it bore a stamped message on its wing feathers written in Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, and a Pakistani phone number.