{"id":33257,"date":"2019-02-26T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33257"},"modified":"2019-02-26T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T05:23:11","slug":"pakistan-army-says-indian-jets-violate-airspace-release-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33257","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan army says Indian jets violate airspace, release payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.2027334852\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Indian aircraft have violated Pakistani airspace near the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed territory of Kashmir, dropping a payload that left no casualties, Pakistan&#8217;s military has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The aircraft entered Pakistani airspace early on Tuesday morning and returned to India after Pakistani air force jets were scrambled to intercept them, Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Facing timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force released payload in haste while escaping which fell near Balakot. No casualties or damage,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.46875\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/1100179216375693318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"3.52739726027\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8drYtNGMsm\">pic.twitter.com\/8drYtNGMsm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialDGISPR\/status\/1100231826348617728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2019<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Indian aircraft appear to have crossed the LoC near the border village of Chakothi in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People in Chakothi heard a very loud sound of aircraft passing overhead at 3am,&#8221; Roshan Mughal, a local journalist, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Later on Tuesday, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, India&#8217;s\u00a0minister of state for agriculture, said Indian air force jets had carried out air raids on &#8220;terror camps&#8221; inside Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Air Force carried out aerial strike early morning today at terror camps across the LoC and Completely destroyed it,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter, in the first Indian government comment on the raids.<\/p>\n<p>India has repeatedly threatened military action against its neighbour Pakistan, who it blames of &#8220;controlling&#8221; a suicide attack that killed at least 42 Indian security forces personnel in the Indian-administered Kashmir on February 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian aircraft have violated Pakistani airspace near the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed territory of Kashmir, dropping a payload that left no casualties, Pakistan&#8217;s military has said. The aircraft entered Pakistani airspace early on Tuesday morning and returned to India after Pakistani air force jets were scrambled to intercept them, Major General Asif&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}