RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spy drone after it intruded into Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from across the restive Line of Control (LoC), the military’s media wing said on Friday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), in a tweet, said: “#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter which came from Kanzalwan Sector, intruded 700 Meters on Pakistan side of #LOC in Nekrun Sector.”
#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter which came from Kanzalwan Sector, intruded 700 Meters on Pakistan side of #LOC in Nekrun Sector.
— DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) May 29, 2020
The incident marks the second time this week that a spy drone has intruded into Pakistani territory. Earlier, the army downed an Indian surveillance drone that had crossed over the LoC into the Rakh Chakri sector on 27 May.
According to a statement then by Director General ISPR Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar, the quadcopter had intruded 650 meters into Pakistani territory.
#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter in Rakhchikri Sector along LOC.
The quadcopter had intruded 650 meters on Pakistan’s side of the #LOC. pic.twitter.com/ZARleWqaat— DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) May 27, 2020
At the turn of the New Year, on January 1, the army shot down a spy Indian quadcopter in the Bagh sector along the LoC. Within 24 hours, a second was shot down in Satwal Sector along the LoC. “Not even a quadcopter will be allowed to cross LoC, InshaAllah,” then DG ISPR Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor had vowed”.
According to military sources, the Indian military uses quadcopters for aerial photography of Pakistani posts along the LoC as part of its intelligence-gathering operations and target selection before carrying out cross-LoC shelling.
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