{"id":6877,"date":"2022-03-10T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:50:16","slug":"indian-projectile-enters-pakistani-airspace-dg-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/indian-projectile-enters-pakistani-airspace-dg-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian projectile enters Pakistani airspace: DG ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: An Indian projectile on Thursday entered the Pakistani airspace and fell near Mian Channu in Khanewal district, causing some damage to the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, the Director-General of the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar said that Pakistan strongly condemned the incident and asked India for an explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DG ISPR Press Conference &#8211; 10 March 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W5HTbFll3V\">https:\/\/t.co\/W5HTbFll3V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DG ISPR (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/1501951149661769736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;At 6:43pm [on Thursday], a high-speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory by the Air Defence Operation Centre of the Pakistan Airforce,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;From its initial course, the object suddenly manoeuvred towards the Pakistani territory and violated Pakistan&#8217;s airspace [before] ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6:50pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He said that when the projectile fell, it damaged some civilian property, adding that the projectile travelled at the speed of 124kms as it entered from Pakistan from India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We detected the object on time and took necessary action as per the standard operating procedures (SOPs),&#8221; he said, adding that no casualties took place because of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Some material damage was caused to a building when the object fell and a crater was formed as result,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2022-03-10\/404299_133916_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Indian projectiles profile \u2014 Screengrab via Geo News\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Answering a question, the DG ISPR said: &#8220;We were absolutely monitoring the flight path of this object.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maj Gen Iftikhar confirmed that\u00a0there was &#8220;no sensitive installation in the area where the object was shot down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about an uptick of terrorism incidents in the country, especially the Sibi blast a day ago in which seven security officials embraced martyrdom, the DG ISPR said that the country&#8217;s armed forces are taking<br \/>\n&#8220;prompt actions&#8221; to thwart the nefarious designs of the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, we have killed 80 terrorists during the past few weeks,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-navy-intercepts-tracks-indian-submarine-ispr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan Navy intercepts, tracks Indian submarine: ISPR<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: An Indian projectile on Thursday entered the Pakistani airspace and fell near Mian Channu in Khanewal district, causing some damage to the surrounding areas. Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, the Director-General of the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar said that Pakistan strongly condemned the incident and asked India for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[4487,5056,5058,111],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-dg-ispr","tag-indian-projectile","tag-inter-service-public-relations","tag-pak-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}