File photo of a US drone. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
SIALKOT: An RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) was seen entering Pakistani airspace and exiting through the border with India on Saturday, Express News reported.
Express News correspondent Asif Faraz said that the RPV entered Pakistani airspace near the Chaprar sector in Sialkot at around 1:55pm. It remained in Pakistani airspace for a minute and a half and was sent back when it came to the attention of the Pakistani Air Force.
The RPV was reported to be green in colour and flying at a height of 3,500 feet.
Earlier in June, two Indian fighter planes entered Pakistan’s airspace near Head Sulemanki border. The planes were reportedly five to seven miles inside Pakistan.
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@antanu - "it is supplied bu israel…not made in India"
Atleast its not stolen technology...
@ Water Bottle "India has drones?"
Please note that India has two types of drone. One is for spy operation another is called "Killer drone", like Israel's heron drone. India has both kind of drones. Lastly India is quite advance now.
China sometimes violates Indian airspace and now India has done the same with Pakistan. It is a chain reaction and a clear cut message to the all weather friend of Pakistan to keep away from the Indian territory.
@jee: I think has had enough spirit to be knocked out for atleast another 50 years... Yuk!!! Cheers....
This is the reason Pakistan should have concentrated on educating the masses like China and India over the past 5 decades and connected and done business with all nations - it would have been able to produce a strong and robust deterrent by now.
wake up nation....... its real time of wake up.....
Well taking care of property business is more important than drab jobs of defending country's borders
Our radars must be obsolete. Tell me Indians...why only 90 seconds and not longer? Salams
We need to get help from our Irani friends to ground these drones by cracking "ganguly code".
@Abdur Rehman: No one has proved that the CM you refer to actually was involved in a riot. Yes the riot where 754 Muslims and 250 Hindus died happened on his watch 11 years back and no other riots have happened in the past 11 years. By this logic Qaim Ali Shah should also to be eligible o be CM of Sind since thousands of Muslims have been killed in target killing year after year on his watch. Shahbaz Sharif should not qualify as CM since Data Darbar attack, desecration of Ahmadi graves, Joseph Colony, Gojra all happened on his watch.
Unlike Pakistan where no one gets convicted for hate crime, 33 people including a Hindu minister were convicted for the Gujarat riots. No court has found Modi guilty despite all effort by the center which is a political opposition. If the people in Gujarat continue to elect him, it is because they do not believe he had anything to do wih the riots. You may not be aware that even Muslims in Gujarat have been voting for him.
@Mohammad Ali Siddiqui: By that logic why are US drones not shot when you claim that you are a sovereign nation. At least this RPV did not have capacity o kill Pakistani civilians unlike US drones which have been doing so for 9 years.
Can you see that this proves the hypocrisy of the the armed forces who are not scrambling PAF when US drones enter by claiming civilian approval is needed. As though they would wait for civilian approval in case it was Indian drones. The true reason is that it is our army that has given permission to the drones.
If history has taught us anything, it is that Hindustanis are no threat in the air. Sadly they didn't know that in 1965, when they lost to an air force that was one fifth their size...
Hasan
A new 'NATIONAL BIRD' !
@antanu: I think you are correct. I have read reports 4 - 5 years ago that India had purchased about 5 Israeli drones. Do not know if India got the technology also. In any case these are not armed predator drones and Pakistan also has some.
@Water Bottle:
"I think Pakistanis are confusing some Seagulls for drones. We are not that advanced."
I think you are confusing Pakistanis with Indian intelligence, which thought planets were Chinese drones
Next time , help that drone to land in Pakistan.
@Polpot: it is supplied bu israel...not made in India.
I agree with many posters who are asking the question: Why can't khakis or PAF not shoot down a low flying-low speed indian drone? I understand the unwillingness of khakis and PAF to not shoot down US drones as repercussions will be bad, but why not shoot down the indian drones? Lets battle test those state-of-the-art JF-17!
Krish Mohan: "Pakistan’s National Birds: The Indian and American Drones"
That is not possible! If Hindu drones are allowed to be the national bird of Pakistan, it will mean Two Nation Theory is flawed! Only US drones are acceptable inside Pakistan.
@Umar: Janab Umar Sahib. You mean we dont have any missiles or ack ack working. Very strange. Why jets?
With such actions from India, I think Pakistan interfance in India is justified.
Aray wah...! Aman ki Asha shooed away within a min...:p Do the US drones shower M&Ms that they can't be buzzed away...??
@Bilal: Hahaha that is a good one sir, u are funny!!! so when u and PAF were laughing on India, Indian's RPV was flying over Pakistan :-) where planet can not escape from Indian's eye, Pakistani army spends time in finding difference between birds and Indian RPV :-)
The best comment goes to @Vishnu Dutta:
"It was a non state UAV. Cant blame India for that".
Army is busy in draining stagnant water from the streets of Karachi. Please don't disturb them.
Pakistan's National Birds: The Indian and American Drones
And when we reading news about Indo-Pak backdoor diplomacy. This violation occurred hmm interesting.
Some Indians mistook the planets to be drones. Pakistanis mistook the drones to be planets. Case closed.
Indian RPV enters Pakistani Airspace... PAF doesn't come out to play... Disappointed Indian RPV goes back home... shame on us.. whatever happened to our sense of hospitality??
This was bound to happen because anyone can violate the pakistani border now due to fractured and fragile conditions of pakistan.
and they say give us order to target US high tech drones !!
@Water Bottle:Atleast Paks didn't confuse Indian drones with Jupiter and Venus as India army did.http://tribune.com.pk/story/582224/indian-army-mistook-planets-for-chinese-spy-drones-report/
Haha India army's trolls continues.
@Anshuman Tripathy: Ok, Yoda. I assume that message of "Be proud of who you are. Always." applies to everyone. Always.
@Paktiger: AS was in 1965 an 1971
So what, India and Pakisan are street urchans, playing drone drone. No worries.
"The RPV was reported to be green in colour ........ "
They got close enough to discern its color ........ ?
Indian army has old habits of doing such stunts. Indian army needs to act with a bit of responsibility and not like such bollywood action army.....
@Umer there are lot of ways to shoot down a aircraft or a drone. Surface to air missile ever heard of that? Does your army posses it?
@ Anshuman .. is water bottle a drone?
Hold it guys. This was green in colour and therefore it was a djinn of 1965 war fame.
@ Water Bottle google for "DRDO Nishant" and "DRDO Rustam". You'll get your answer. I can understand you being honest and frank about India all the time but that doesn't mean you lose your self respect. Be proud of who you are are. Always.
@ Water Bottle: google for "DRDO Nishant" and "DRDO Rustam". You'll get your answer. I can understand you being honest and frank about India all the time but that doesn't mean you lose your self respect. Be proud of who you are are. Always.
Mr Umar......if one slaps and after slapping runs away fast enough knowing another's limitaion to respond is utter failure of the one who received tbe slap. PAF should leave the falcon houses and think for a moment for their failures one after another.
Not Government but, Pakistan Air-force should take serious action against India.
@Insaan: And how many innocent kashmiris were killed by indians this month ? No sensible Pakistani approves of killings or any harm to shias or any minority but indians reward a minority killer by making him CM and now a PM candidate.
This just goes to show that our armed forces never discriminate on basis of religion or nationality. All are welcomed by open arms by khakis and PAF, be it amreekan, afghan, talibans, LeTs and other lashkars, chinese or even indian brothers. Our armed forces who are mostly from punjab, are showing a true lahori mehmaan nawazi to Indians. Indians, learn from our khkakis and PAF.
Why was the Indian Drone not shot down? Does it mean our F-16 Migs F-7 cannot shot down a drone? Mr PAF ISPR pl respond to Pakistani people and tax payers. PAF said shooting down US drones was a piece of cake but there are political issues; there is no such excuse in shooting down Indian drone.
@Mohammad Ali Siddiqui: "It was an Indian RPV and not an US drone". Does Pakistan have a compulsion of not shooting down US drones.
@Water Bottle: Like indians confused some stars on horizon with chinese drones. Not sure about india, Pakistan has drones since early 90s, enough to confuse indians.
@Umar: You seem to be a expert in this. Tell us why it took over two hours to reach Salala
Hey ET: Why did you block my comment... Ghareeb ki joru sub ki bhabhi. Which moderation policy did it violate?
Pls extend the same courtesy to the Indian RPV as to the US Drones +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@Insaan: Ahh too many Indian propaganda fed people here
And how did PAF come to know that it is Indian? Was INDIA written over it?
@Indi, by this logic, India should not claim its sovereign state, they have been telling us that there is continuous infiltration for past 15 years ;)
For those of you who start criticizing Pakistan Air Force for not taking action and gunning down these constant intrusions, know this that it takes approximately five minutes for a Fighter to get airborne. Add another 2-3 minutes to get to site of intrusion, there is little question on response time of our air force. Indian forces are already aware of this, and that is why when they violate our airspace, they dare not to remain for more than this time window. So kudos to PAF for being vigilant and defending our borders from the sky.
This drone should have been shot down. Pakistan Govt should ask an explanation from the Indian Govt regarding this. At one hand they talk about peace (Aman ki Asha) and on the other hand they send fighter jets and drones in our country.
@ayesha: Shoot ‘em down.
But keep sending non-State actors to kill innocent people in India and Afghanistan. How many Shias killed in Pakistan this month?
Where is the air force we should send up the planes and shoot them down. We shall never let the Indians violate our country.
Green RPV? None of the Indian planes use green camouflage.
Anyways it must be a mistake, 3500 ft is too low to fly anyways.
Shukar hai Express News mein tau thori si ghairat hai. The biggest media group considers it a sin to publish news about our 'loving' neighbours!
Green colour? Then it must be Pakistan's flag flying.
Why it was not shot down by Pakistan's Airforce, when it entered into Pakistan's Air-Space?
It was an Indian RPV and not an US drone.
Shoot 'em down.
soon china drone will be seen as well.
Congradulations to Shaheens at least they spotted this drone After all as per mr pasha Air Force cannot be awake at all times
its pakistanis dream or something else?
Aman-ke-Asha
in picture usa drone and in headilne indian rpv..lol
good news.why only usa drones?
"It remained in Pakistani airspace for a minute and a half and was sent when it came to the attention of the Pakistani Air Force."
The language gives the impression as if the RPV was sent (back ) by the Pakistani air force. Is it really so ? Track record of air force does not match to it. If not ET Web Desk needs to improve..
India-Pak bhai bhai !!!
ahh chill pakistan....... y do u act as if u r a sovereign state..... y so much fuss about it...peace ;)
India has drones?
I had no idea.
I think Pakistanis are confusing some Seagulls for drones. We are not that advanced.
And much like during the OBL raid..the Pak air force was asleep and incompetent.