Pakistan Army had claimed that it shot down the drone in the Bhimber area of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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Indian foreign secretary S.Jaishankar responded saying it was a Chinese drone, and India had nothing to do with it. The Pakistani Army has alleged the drone was being used for aerial photography near the Line of Control. It is possible it was being flown by some powerful elements in the Pakistani establishment without the country’s defense ministry knowing about it, sources said.
“There is a clear pattern that whenever there is some constructive dialogue between the two countries, the Pak Army and the ISI go out of the way to ensure that the process is derailed”. Pakistani Rangers, too, had resorted to heavy shelling in the Akhnoor sector earlier this week in a bid to facilitate the infiltration attempts.
A drone that was shot down in Pakistan has been identified as having been made in China, a state-run daily said Saturday.
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Though Islamabad cited the drone to accuse India of violating its airspace, a report in the Chinese daily corroborated New Delhi’s claim that the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was made in China. The report was reproduced in the English-language website of the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, although not carried in the more authoritative Chinese version that is the party’s mouthpiece.
