ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned an emergency assembly at the PM Office to discuss the prevailing situation, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Tuesday.The Pakistan Air Force thwarted an early morning incursion into its airspace Tuesday by Indian fighter aircraft forcing them to flee, the military spokesman said.The Indian aircrafts intimpolited from Muzafarabad sector, Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet at 6:36 am.He said the "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" forced the intruding aircraft to "release payload in haste while escaping, which fell approach Balakot."He said "No casualties or damage" were reported due to the dropping of "payload."Pictures released by the Director General Inter Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor show a burnt out steep mountain side with no sign of any damage to any property, apart from a few burnt out pine trees.A few stoughs of metal were scattered around in the charred grass.The military spokesman in a tweet at 4:42 am said "Indian Air Force violated the Line of Control.
Pakistan Air Force instantly scrambled.
Indian aircrafts gone back.
Details to follow."The incursion into the Pakistan air space follows a series of threats by Indian political and military leadership following the attack on an Indian Army convoy at Pulwama by a local youth, in reaction to the oppression unleashed by the occupational forces.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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