PESHAWAR: A Nato helicopter violated Pakistani airspace near the Torkham border in the Khyber Agency, officials told The Express Tribune on Wednesday.
Tribal sources said that a Nato helicopter entered Pakistani territory at around 11 am and hovered in the air for a couple of minutes.
An official statement is yet to be issued. Furthermore, civil officials of the political administration of the Khyber Agency have also refused to comment on the issue.
Some security agencies, while contradicting such reports, said that Nato forces are engaged in military action across the border, stressing that their action is confined to Afghan territories.
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@Sexton Blake:
Believe it or not, even sophisticated military controls can sometimes malfunction. Some examples are Indian Jets flying in, they dont have enough courage to come inside and wont do so without a real technical fault. Another example is the many friendly fire cases by US and Coalition in Iraq/ Afghan on themselves. They use very special softwares like "Landwarrior", "Ad Hoc" etc that constantly keep track of and notify anyone near by the location of friendlies. In short, MUCH more sophisticated than your automobile navigation. Now add human error in the mix and you can easily have someone go off course.
But even having said all that, there still isnt a real reason to be mad because the intrusion was unintended, no one was attacked.
Or if there was a real reason of them coming in, they were most probably after fleeing Taliban, whats your problem with that then? We are then pretty much fighting a common enemy. Real intrusions are drones for which nothing has been done as of yet, why this particular case is getting on your nerves?
People just have an over bloated case of ego that needs to simmer down.
@Sexton Blake: BTW, how many pakistani women and children have been killed by your beloved TTP "thugs" over the last decade, while you have NEVER condemned them for the slaughter of near 30,000 Pakistanis!!!'
@Azi: I have a navigation system in my automobile. If it made the so called navigation error this helicopter made I would finish up in the countryside on the other side of a very large city. In several years it has not made such a mistake, and you should realize that military navigation systems are extremely sophisticated.
@Jat:
Calm down, a minor airspace violation can mean anything. In most cases its to due improper navigation/ route mistakes. Stop jumping out of your chair everytime things like these happen, no need make enemies over nothing. Tho I have a strong feeling you are an Indian looking to incite hate.
This is an example of double dealing...Pakistan has correctly asked for help,in stopping Taliban incursion into their territory from Afganistan...but when NATO troops take the fight to the terrorists who are slipping across the border, Pakistan wants to claim sovereignty violations?...wake up Pakistan...we are fighting a common enemy and should be doing it together...the government should stop placating the radical mullahs by pretending to be against the NATO troops?...the radical Taliban who have killed 60 thousand Pakistanis should be stopped by any means necessary...you should be thanking the NATO helicopter pilots...
After Modi Obama meeting..Air Violations by US and cross border firings by India increased very much
@Abdullah If you are referring to Jihadis from all over the world, I fully agree. Unless we can direct our anger at ALL violators of our sovereignty with the same rigour that we usually reserve for tactical-level navigation failures by NATO/US, I don't think we stand any credible chance of stopping these -- and more importantly, Jihadist -- incursions.
@Jat: Very well said keep waving and wishing luck to the NATO forces..
Our tax money is being wasted to invite people to come inside our countries and do whatever they want to.
It clearly means that NATO Drones are not violating Pakistani airspace. Drones are flying with the approval of Pakistani Govt.
Yeah what is that air defence is for?
Let us hope Pakistan writes a letter to UN about this violation also.
We will go to UN.....
For full ten minutes the American helicopters were inside Pakistan and what was the PAF and Army doing ? Waving at them ?
It is time to send Air Marshal Latif and Air Marshal Chaudhary to the border immediately.