Pakistani helicopter violates Indian airspace in J & K Poonch: Army | India News

NEW DELHI: A Pakistani helicopter on Sunday violated Indian airspace along the Control Line (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, but turned around.

Lt. Col. Devender Anand of the army, based in Jammu, said the helicopter violated the airspace around 12:10.

"The air sentries located in the front had engaged with small arms," ​​said this official. He said it was most likely a civilian helicopter and that he was flying very high.

According to officials, a white helicopter entered Indian airspace in the Gulpur area and flew over for a time before turning around.

Three outposts fired small arms after observing the violation of airspace, sources said.

The incident of a Pakistani helicopter violating Indian airspace came a day after Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who spoke at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, raised the issue terrorism sponsored by Pakistan.

"The demon of terrorism is now invading the world, at a faster pace somewhere, a slower pace elsewhere, but threatening life everywhere. In our case, terrorism does not develop in a distant country, but on the other side of our western border. The expertise of our neighbor is not limited to the spawning grounds of terrorism; it's also an expert in attempting to mask malevolence with verbal duplicity, "Swaraj said.

At the beginning of the year in February, a Pakistani military helicopter had flown dangerously close to the control line in the Poonch area of ​​Jammu and Kashmir, in violation of a bilateral agreement signed in 1991 that "aircraft with rotary wing of fixed-wing aircraft (fighters, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft) located within 10 km of their airspace.

(With PTI entries)

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