NEW DELHI, March 11: India on Monday promptly denied Islamabad’s claim that Pakistan had fired at an Indian plane that crossed into its airspace at the weekend, the United News of India (UNI) agency said.

“We strongly deny that any Indian plane had strayed into the Pakistani airspace and was fired at by Pakistan,” UNI reported a Defence Ministry spokesman as saying.

The denial followed reports from Islamabad in which Pakistan government spokesman Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi said that the plane was fired at when it crossed into the Pakistani airspace on Sunday, according to UNI.

Gen Qureshi said the plane, carrying a senior Air Force officer, later crossed went into the Indian airspace where it also took Indian fire.

The Indian spokesman said: “The report is totally incorrect...there was no such incident”. —JN