RAWALPINDI: The Paki­stan Army on Sunday shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Pandu sector along the restive Line of Control (LoC), according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The director general of the military’s media affairs wing said in a tweet: “#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Indian spying #quadcopter in Pandu Sec­tor along LOC.”

The quadcopter had intruded 200 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC, he said, adding this is the 10th Indian quadcopter shot down by the Pakistan Army this year.

The ninth such incident occurred on June 28 when an Indian spying quadcopter was shot down in Hot Spring sector along the LoC after it intruded 850 metres on the Pakistan’s side.

Also in June, the Pakistan Army had shot down an Indian quadcopter in Kha­njar sector along the LoC. According to ISPR, that quadcopter had intruded 500 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC.

After the first Indian spying quadcopter was shot down by the Pakistan Army, IPSR director general Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar had warned that any military adventurism by India will be met with “uncontrollable and unintended consequences”. He had cautioned the neighbouring nation to “not play with fire”.

“Many times, their [India’s] quadcopters have intruded on our side [of the LoC] and in the past we have downed some of them, and it has been covered in the media.”

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2020