India Regrets ‘Accidental’ Launching Missiles At Pakistan.

Reacting to the incident of an unarmed supersonic Indian missile landing 124 km deep inside Pakistan Wednesday, the Indian Govt said it was an accidental firing and expressed regret, and a high-level investigation has been ordered into it.

“It is learnt that the missile landed in an area of Pakistan. While the incident is deeply regrettable, it is also a matter of relief that there has been no loss of life due to the accident,” the statement said.

The Government of India, it said, “has taken a serious view and ordered a high-level Court of Enquiry”.

Pakistan summoned the Indian envoy regarding the incident Friday, conveyed its strong protest, and asked for a transparent investigation.

PTI reported that India’s Charge d’Affaires M Suresh Kumar was told Thursday night about the incident in which an Indian “supersonic flying object” entered into Pakistan from “Suratgarh” in India at 6:43 PM (local time) on March 9.

India’s statement comes a day after Pakistan’s military spokesperson Maj General Babar Ifthikar said in a late evening press conference that an unarmed Indian supersonic missile took off from Sirsa and landed near Mian Channu in Khanewal district, around 124 km inside Pakistani territory. He said that the missile was cruising at an altitude of 40,000 feet and endangered passenger flights in both Indian and Pakistani airspace and civilians and property on the ground.

There were no human casualties, but it hit a wall where it landed.

There was no discussion exchanged at the level of Directors General of Military Operations of Indian and Pakistani Army. He had stated that the onus was on India to explain the incident.

Neither India nor Pakistan has identified what kind of missile it was.