Wing Commander Vyomika Singh highlighted the strategy of Pakistan’s airspace, saying that Islamabad on Wednesday kept his civilian airspace open after launching the “unsuccessful unprotected drone” and missile attack, effectively used civil airlines as shields.
Addressing a special briefing at Operation Sindoor on Friday, Wing Commander Vyomika Singh said, “Pakistan did not shut down its civilians despite launching a failed unsafe drone and missile attack on 7 May in 08:30 hours on 7 May. Pakistan is using a airline.
He further emphasized that this decision threatened unwanted civil airlines, including international flights operated near the India-Pakistan border.
He said, “It is not safe for unnatural civil airlines including international flights who were flying to IB between India and Pakistan,” he said.
During the briefing, the Wing Commander showed the data of the application flight radar 24 during the position of high air defense warning in the Punjab region.
Singh said that when India’s airspace had increased, due to high alert, Pakistan allowed civil airlines to continue the flight, including the Karachi-Lahore road.
“As you have seen, the airspace of the Indian side is completely free from air traffic due to our declared closure. However, there are civil airlines flying air routes between Karachi and Lahore … The Indian Air Force demonstrated considerable restraint in its response to ensure the safety of the international citizen carrier.”
In addition, he also said that in response to the Pakistani attack, armed drones were launched at four air defense sites in Pakistan. One of the drones was capable of destroying an air defense radar on Thursday.
Citing Pakistan’s attack on the Indian Army on the night of 7 and 8 May, he said, “Pakistan also used heavy-caliber artillery guns and armed drones accelerate acceleration across the line of control … resulting in some damage and injuries to the people of the Indian Army.
Colonel Sophia Qureshi revealed that in a major growth with the Western Front of India, the Pakistani army carried out several airspace violations and drone infiltrations on the night of 7 and 8 May, targeting the Indian military infrastructure.
Colonel Sophia Qureshi said during the press briefing, “On the night of May 7 and 8, the Pakistani Army violated Indian airspace several times on the entire western border to target the military infrastructure. Not that not, the Pakistani Army removed heavy-caliber weapons along the line of control.
He said, “Indian armed forces shot many of these drones using kinetic and nonic means. Such massive aerial infiltration was to test air defense systems and gather intelligence information. Forensic investigation of drone debris is being tested. Preliminary reports show that they are Turkish Asisgard Songs …”
Increasing its tension with India, Pakistan on Thursday targeted Jammu using Hamas-style missiles to target several areas, defense sources told ANI.
Sources said the attack resembles the operation of Hamas-style in Israel, where several cheap rockets were used to target cities.
Pakistan’s effort, vengeance came in the wake of Operation Sindoor in India, where the Indian armed forces on Wednesday targeted nine terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan -occupied Kashmir.
Operation was a direct reaction to the Pahalgam terrorist attack on 22 April.
Earlier on Thursday, the Indian Army shot over 50 Pakistani drones during a massive counter-drain operation with Loc and International Borders (IB), sources told ANI.
The Indian armed forces successfully neutralized Pakistan’s army efforts in large-scale drone and missile attacks at several Indian military establishments in northern and western India during the night of 7-8 May, and neutralized an air defense system in Lahore. (AI)