India Expresses ‘Deep Regret’ Over ‘Accidental Firing’ of Missile at Pakistan
The Ministry of Defence has announced that the “high speed flying object” that Pakistan had claimed entered its airspace on March 9, was in fact a missile that had been “accidentally fired”.
Expressing “deep regret,” the defence ministry has cited that a technical malfunction led to the firing of the missile during what it has claimed was “routine maintenance.”
“On 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile,” it said in a press statement released through the Press Information Bureau.
The Indian government’s note comes two days after the incident and a day after Director-General of the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar addressed reporters in Rawalpindi on the issue.
Earlier on Friday, Pakistan’s Foreign Office had summoned the Indian ambassador to register protest over the unprovoked violation of its airspace, Dawn reported.
