Army shoots down Indian drone

Pakistan shot down a small Indian surveillance drone in Kashmir.

According to a statement from the army media wing, the Indian quadcopter - about the same size as a commercially available hobby drone - had crossed 600 metres (650 yards) over the Line of Control (LoC).

"This blatant act was aggressively responded to by Pakistan Army troops shooting down Indian quadcopter," the statement read.-AFP

Reuters adds: Indian and Pakistani troops in Kashmir are engaged in their most frequent cross-LoC fighting of at least two years, official data shows, even as both rivals battle surging coronavirus outbreaks.

Indian Army data reviewed by Reuters shows 411 ceasefire "violations" by Pakistan's military in March, the highest number in a single month since at least 2018. That compares with 267 "violations" in March last year recorded by the Indian Army. "(The) Pakistan Army never initiates ceasefire violations along LoC, but it has always responded befittingly to Indian Army's unprovoked firing," said Major-General Babar Iftikhar, of the public relations wing of the Pakistan Army.

Iftikhar said Pakistan's military had recorded 705 ceasefire violations by the Indian Army since the beginning of the year.

The Indian Army data showed 1,197 Pakistani "violations" during the same period.