DRONES FIRED AT PAKISTAN
India fired several Israeli-made Harop drones at Pakistan overnight and into Thursday afternoon, according to army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif.
Pakistani forces shot down 25, he said. A civilian was killed and another wounded when debris from a downed drone fell in Sindh province.
One drone damaged a military site near the city of Lahore and wounded four soldiers, and another fell in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, near the capital, according to Sharif.
“The armed forces are neutralising them as we speak,” Sharif said on the state-run Pakistan Television early Thursday afternoon.
“Indian drones continue to be sent into Pakistan airspace … (India) will continue to pay dearly for this naked aggression,” he added.
India’s government said on Thursday that Pakistan had launched an air attack using “drones and missiles” overnight, before New Delhi retaliated to destroy an air defence system in Lahore.
“Pakistan attempted to engage a number of military targets … using drones and missiles,” the defence ministry said in a statement, adding that “these were neutralised” by India’s air defence systems.
