Pakistan and India trade accusations of drone attacks as conflict escalates - Agency Report
Pakistan and India trade accusations of drone attacks as conflict escalates - Agency Report
Pakistani military official accuses Delhi of ‘another blatant act of aggression’ a day after Indian strikes killed dozens
Pakistan and India accused each other of overnight drone and missile attacks, with Delhi claiming to have thwarted strikes on more than a dozen cities and Islamabad claiming to have shot down 25 Indian drones.
The allegations levelled on both sides marked a stark escalation of the conflict, after Indian missile strikes on Pakistan in the early hours of Wednesday killed 31 people.
Pakistan’s military spokesperson Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said at a press conference that India had “apparently lost the plot” as he accused it of“yet another blatant military act of aggression” in sending more than dozen drones overnight over major cities including Rawalpindi, where Pakistan’s military has its headquarters.
He said Pakistan’s air defence systems had brought down more than a dozen drones, and a confrontation with another airborne Indian device had left four Pakistani soldiers injured. He said a civilian in the Miano area of Sindh, which borders India, died in an incident involving a drone, but he did not give further details.
