Pakistan Used Civil Airliner As Shield During Failed Drone attack: mea

Pakistan is utilising civilian airliners arsenic a shield, contempt being alert that an onslaught connected India would provoke a accelerated aerial defence reaction. Addressing nan media, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said: "Pakistan did not adjacent its civilian airspace contempt it launching a grounded unprovoked drone and rocket onslaught connected 7 May astatine 8.30 pm. Pakistan is utilizing a civilian airliner arsenic a shield, knowing afloat good that its onslaught connected India would elicit a swift aerial defence response. This is not safe for nan unsuspecting civilian airliners, including nan world flights, which were flying adjacent IB betwixt India and Pakistan."

The conflict betwixt India and Pakistan witnessed a important escalation connected nan nighttime of May 8-9. As per nan latest property merchandise from nan Indian government, Pakistan attempted to target subject sites successful 15 cities including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj.

Fortunately, nan Indian Army was capable to forestall these attacks. The tensions betwixt nan 2 neighboring nations intensified pursuing India's Operation Sindoor strikes connected 9 violent accommodation successful Pakistan successful consequence to a violent incident successful J&K's Pahalgam. 

During nan MEA briefing: Colonel Sofiya Qureshi said: "On nan nighttime of May 7 and 8, nan Pakistani service violated Indian airspace respective times complete nan full occidental separator pinch nan volition of targeting subject infrastructure. Not only this, nan Pakistani service besides fired dense caliber weapons on nan Line of Control. Around 300 to 400 drones were utilized to effort infiltration astatine 36 locations. The Indian equipped forces changeable down galore of these drones utilizing kinetic and non-kinetic means. The imaginable intent of specified large-scale aerial intrusions was to trial aerial defence systems and cod intelligence. Forensic investigation of nan wreckage of nan drones is being done. Initial reports propose that they are Turkish Asisguard Songar drones..."

Published on: May 9, 2025 6:05 PM IST