Rawalpindi (Web Desk): The Pakistan armed forces have neutralised 29 Israeli-made Harop drones used by India in recent cross-border attacks, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated on Thursday.
According to the military’s media wing, the drones were shot down using both electronic countermeasures (soft-kill techniques) and conventional weaponry (hard-kill systems) after they were detected over multiple areas across Pakistan.
The ISPR termed the drone incursions as part of a “desperate and panicked response” by India following the downing of five of its fighter jets and several military posts during Pakistan’s retaliatory operations on May 6 and 7.
As per the statement, debris from the Israeli-origin drones is being recovered from various locations within Pakistan.
The ISPR further said that India has suffered substantial losses along the Line of Control (LoC) in recent days.
“The Pakistan Armed Forces are responding decisively to all hostile actions and continue to thwart enemy intentions,” the statement read.
Earlier on Thursday, Director General (DG) ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Thursday said that Pakistan’s armed forces, maintaining a high level of alert, successfully neutralised 12 Indian Harop drones launched across various locations in a clear act of aggression.
Addressing a press conference, he said that n the night of May 7th and 8th, India carried out yet another blatant act of military aggression against Pakistan by launching hostile drones at multiple locations.
In response, the Armed Forces of Pakistan maintaining the highest state of alert and vigilance, successfully neutralised 12 Harop drones.
Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif stated that the locations where the Indian drones were neutralised including Lahore, Attock, Gujranwala, Chakwal, Rawalpindi, Bahawalpur, Miano, Chor and Near Karachi.
The DG ISPR also showed debris of neutralised drones.
He said that four personnel of the Pakistan Army have been injured as a 13th Indian drone “managed to engage in a military target near Lahore partially.
“Four men of Pakistan Army have been injured in this attack near Lahore with partial damage to an equipment has occurred.”
He said, in an another drone attack one civilian has embraced martyrdom and one is injured in Miano, Sindh.
“This naked aggression continues, and the armed forces are on high degree of alert and neutralising them,” he said.
He added that the provocation “miserably failed on the night of May 6 and 7, when they attacked places of worship and civilian infrastructure and killed innocent civilians, including children, women and elderly”.
Recalling that the Indian army faced “destruction of five of their aircraft and suffering heavy casualties along the Line of Control and damage”, the DG ISPR said India has “apparently lost the plot”.
“Rather than going on a path of rationality, it is further escalating in a highly charged environment to satisfy the hubristic mindset of the Indian government,” he said.
The DG ISPR said that the international community can visibly see the path that India is treading through this extremely provocative military aggression in a region that is right now highly fragile and putting the security of the region and beyond at risk.
“Pakistan armed forces remain fully vigilant to any type of threat,” he added.