Jammu, February 11
A Pakistani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) violated the Indian airspace last afternoon over the Indian border out posts
(BOPs) — Pittal and Pindi — in the Arnia sector of this district, the police said today.
The Pakistani UAV crossed the international border at around 1.00 p.m. yesterday and entered about 200 metres within the Indian airspace. It circled in the skies for about five minutes before going back, the police said.
The UAV was flying about 2,000 metres high, and witnesses said the aircraft was white in colour with shades of light green.
There was, however, no report on whether Indian border guards fired at the aircraft.
With the latest intrusion, the Pakistani UAVs have violated the Indian airspace for the fourth time in the past two months. These UAVs are fitted with high resolution cameras capable of clicking thousands of photographs a minute.
Earlier reports had said Pakistan had amassed about 25 UAVs at the Mianwali airbase in
Sialkot. These UAVs were supplied to Pakistan by China in 1998. But many of them were grounded for want of spare parts.
Failure of these UAVs to click the required photographs, forced the Commanders of 10 and 30 Corps of the Pakistan Army to requisition the Airborne Warning and Control Systems
(AWACS), which are fitted on F-7 warplanes, reports said. UNI
