Iranian helicopter infiltrated into the Pakistani airspace at around 1:30 PM on Tuesday and returned after flying for several minutes. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
The Iranian chopper entered Pakistani airspace from Iran’s Saravan region into Mashakhail area of Washuk district in Balochistan near the Pak-Iran border.
According to a senior government official, the Iranian helicopter infiltrated into the Pakistani airspace at around 1:30 pm on Tuesday and returned after flying around for several minutes.
According to reports, government of Pakistan has not yet raised the issue with Iran.
Iranian officials had threatened that it might even cross the international border into Pakistan to chase extremist elements engaged in anti-state activities in Iran.
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@Khalid:
Khalid is an Arabic name and Iranians are Persians. You are not a very good liar.
Now time for helicopter shot. No not from Dhoni but from iranians .
Next even Balochistan will start violating Pakistani sovereignty.
When a country does not have the writ on its territory and non state actors freely carrying on their activities in even Pakistan's ccapital, then such violations which are for a commonly good purposes do not mean anything and hence should go un attended.
It is Maldives turn now!
This happens between neighboring countries, relax.
I don't think Iran can afford a confrontation with Pakistan at the moment honestly. How isolated do they want to get in the international community? Although they do have a common enemy in Baloch insurgents and Drug Traffickers, they can cooperate with each other in this regard like they did under Shah and Bhutto.
@Khalid...Please chase terrorist in pakistan as pakis themselves are very uncompetitive to do this....as an Indian we give u full support..............
Pakistan is the main target. Everyone seems to be trying to take advantage of Pakistan's internal instability. US, India, Afghanistan, now Iran are violating Pakistan's territorial integrity. This is a shameful day for sure. Pakistan should not tolerate any foreign aircraft in its airspace, regardless of who it is. Time to move anti-aircraft missiles to the borders, and fire at any aircraft which violates our airspace.
Our military and airforce is far superior to that of India, Afghanistan, or Iran, and we should not suffer this flagrant disregard of our sovereignty under the misinformed notions of keeping peace and preventing incidents. One tough action now will deter any of these violations in the future.
Those who are creating problems in Iran are not liked in Pakistan either and have killed many innocents in their sectarian violence. Just a side effect of Pak-Saudi relationship.
Moreover, Baloch separatists such as BLA are enemies of both the nations too, since they want to carve out their independent nation by taking Baloch dominated areas of both Iran, Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan away.
shoot the damn thing down. It's one thing if america does it (because america feeds us too) but we gotta take afghans and iranis to task, they are nothing militarily
You can sniff an Indian trying to make trouble from a mile away.. so called Khalid and Hafiz trying to appear as Iranian to create ill-will.. go troll your own Indian dungeons.
Either Iranians are loosing grip on reality or just running around like mad dog. As a friend n brother Muslim best advise to Iran would be stay in your limits, already iranians do not have real much friends, it must refrain from useless adventurism or power play with it's neighbors.
shot it down.this time we have to take action right now or it will same story of drone.
Now we violated airspace, do pakistan have guts to prevent our violation ? Just like India or afghanistan, pakistan wants to make problem in our country.
pakistanis are crying now!!!!!!!!!!!
Now you too Brutus!!