India shoots down another Pakistani drone

Indian military sources said on March 9 that the country's military had just shot down a Pakistani drone after it deliberately violated Indian airspace in the Sri Ganganagar area of ​​Rajasthan state. The Pakistani military has not yet made any comments on this information.

This is the third Pakistani drone shot down by the Indian military following the Indian Air Force's attack on a terrorist training camp in Pakistan late last month - an incident that has plunged relations between the two countries into crisis.

India also announced a few days ago that it had shot down a drone in the Bikaner area of ​​Rajasthan state on March 4, and before that, on February 26, another drone that entered Indian airspace in Kutch district of Gujarat state was also shot down.

In another development, at 5 a.m. on March 9 (local time), another Pakistani drone was also said to have attempted to enter Indian airspace at the Hindumalkot border near the city of Sriganganagar before it turned back after being detected and targeted by Indian forces.

The escalating conflict between Pakistan and India erupted after the Indian Air Force on the morning of February 26 conducted an airstrike on a suspected training camp of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed across the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region. The subsequent tensions at the border continued to push the two countries closer to an armed conflict./.