ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army has shot down an Indian spying drone along the heavily militarised Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

“#PakistanArmy troops shot down an Ind­ian spying #quadcopter in Chakothi Sector along LOC. The quadcopter had intruded 500 meters on Pakistan’s side of the #LOC. This is 11th Indian quadcopter shot down by Pakis­tan Army this year,” Inter-Services Public Relat­ions (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said in a tweet on Wednesday.

Published in Dawn, September 10th, 2020

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