The Indian army sent a missile, which did not cause any human loss, announced the Indian Ministry of Defense, qualifying this act of “deeply regrettable”.
Le Monde with AFP
India sent a missile to Pakistan, who did not cause any human loss, announced, on Friday, March 11, the Indian Ministry of Defense, qualifying this act of “deeply regrettable”.
“As part of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental shot of a missile” Wednesday and it landed in “an area of Pakistan”, explains the ministry in a statement.
“The fact that there has been no loss of human lives because of the accident is relief,” he adds. The Ministry of Defense does not specify what kind of missile it was but reports that a high-level survey was launched.
“An unjustified violation”
India, the predominantly Hindu country, and Pakistan, Muslim countries, delivered three wars since the end of British colonization in 1947, two for the disputed territory of Kashmir. The two countries have a strong military presence on both sides of their common border and tensioning outwards went so far as to create nuclear clash fears.
The statement of the Indian Ministry of Defense comes a few hours after the sentence of the Pakistani Foreign Affairs of what it has designated as “an unjustified violation” of Pakistani airspace “by a” flying object ” Supersonic “Indian origin”.
The Pakistani Ministry adds to have convened the India Chargé d’affaires in Islamabad, who was served “a protest farm”. This “imprudent shot” damaged ground buildings and endangered civilian lives as well as airplanes in Pakistani airspace, added the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, accusing India to show “insensitive to peace and regional stability “.