Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, while addressing a press conference with DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said Pakistan categorically denies any intention or action that would endanger the civilian population in Indian Punjab.

He said India, in the early hours of May 8, launched a highly provocative and dangerously escalatory attack on its own territory in Amritsar, calling it “a deeply insidious and sinister attack”. He said three projectiles were deliberately dropped off in the capital of Indian Punjab.

The fourth projectile, he said, entered Pakistan airspace and was neutralised by Pakistan’s air defence.

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