The Defence Ministry stated on Thursday that a missile was unintentionally fired into a Pakistani territory earlier this week, blaming the event on a “technical error” that was “very unfortunate.”
“A technical malfunction during routine maintenance on March 9, 2022, resulted in the accidental firing of a missile. The Indian government has taken a serious stance and has appointed a high-level court of inquiry “In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said.
“According to reports, the missile landed in Pakistan. While the occurrence is unfortunate, it is also a source of relief that no one was killed as a result of it was also added.”
Before landing, the missile travelled more than 100 kilometres inside Pakistani airspace, at an altitude of 40,000 feet and at three times the speed of sound, according to Pakistani officials. The missile did not detonate because it lacked a warhead.
However, Pakistan’s foreign ministry announced that it had summoned India’s charge d’affaires in Islamabad to protest what it called an unjustified breach of its airspace. Pakistan demanded a probe into the event, which it claimed put passenger aircraft and civilian lives in jeopardy.
“Be wary of the painful implications of such neglect and take effective efforts to avoid recurrence of similar violations in the future,” Pakistan advised India.
Major-General Babar Iftikhar, a Pakistani military spokesman, stated in a late-evening news conference that a “high-speed flying object” fell near Mian Channu in the country’s east and that it originated in the northern Indian city of Sirsa in Haryana.
Military specialists are baffled by the incident because firing a missile system necessitates a preparation phase, the identification of a target, and the toggling of many switches.
Both sides handled the issue admirably, according to Happymon Jacob, an international studies professor at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.
He wrote, “It gives me tremendous hope that the two nuclear-weapon states handled the missile event maturely.” New Delhi should offer to compensate the Pak family for the loss of their home.”
