MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistani troops shot down a Indian spy drone as it flew into the country’s airspace over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, according to ISPR Director-General Major General Babar Iftikhar, the quadcopter had intruded 650 meters on Pakistan’s side of the LoC.
He said intrusion by the Indian spying quadcopter is Saffron terrorism.
Pakistani and Indian-controlled portions of the Himalayan region.
The military said Pakistani troops retrieved the wreckage from the drone.
There was no immediate comment from India. Pakistan and India each administer parts of Kashmir, but both claim the region in its entirety.
Tensions have soared between Pakistan and India since last August, when New Delhi revoked Muslim-majority Kashmir’s decades-old semi-autonomous status, touching off anger in Indian-controlled Kashmir and in Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir since independence from British rule in 1947.
