Pakistan's foreign ministry confirms downing of Iran drone
ISLAMABAD — Jun 21, 2017, 12:08 PM ET
Pakistan's foreign ministry has confirmed the country's air force shot down an unmanned Iranian drone in southwestern Baluchistan province.
The Pakistani Air Force initially declined comment, after reports emerged on Tuesday that one of its jets shot down the drone. But on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesman, Nafees Zakaria, released a statement on the matter.
He says the drone was downed on Monday as it flew up to 4 kilometers, or 2.5 miles, inside Pakistani territory, in the Panjgur sector close to the Pakistani-Iranian border.
Zakaria says Pakistani authorities have shared the information with
Iran about striking down the drone.
Iran has expressed concern over militants operating along the Pakistani border and warned that the country was willing to strike militants inside Pakistan — remarks that drew strong protests from Islamabad.
http://abcnews.go.com/International...ministry-confirms-downing-iran-drone-48184561
Iranian drone shot down in Pakistan's airspace: FO
An Iranian manufactured drone.—Photo: File/Theaviationist.com
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan shot down an Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inside its territory on June 19, the Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement released Wednesday.
The UAV was shot down in Balochistan's Panjgur district along the Pak-Iran border.
"The drone was hit by Pakistan Air Force as it was unidentified and flying around 3-4 kilometers inside Pakistani territory," said the statement issued by the FO spokesman.
Pakistan has already shared the information about striking down of this drone with the Iranian authorities, the statement added.
The spokesman further added that Tehran has been conveyed that the UAV was unmarked and there was no prior information about its flight.
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@Icarus here it is.
Hmmm quite frankly I don't get Iran. An isolated country that has a huge amount of enemies who are simply waiting to grab any opportunity to harm Iran and Pakistan the only country that is continouaky vouching for Iran in the Arab world and has harmed it's own relations with Saudis for Iran and has pressured Saudis to bring iran into the alliance only to see Iran reject it and then threaten that only country and now voilate its sovereignity. Iran needs to learn limits or it will be taught limits.
This ummah Muslim stuff needs to end. Not one of them care about us. Pakistan should always be priority number one. Always!
I have advocated great relations with iran even at the expense of Arab anger. I have again and again advocated great relations but great relations does not mean that we are door mats. Iran must reciprocate our gesture and stop acting like a paranoid pariah state.
Hooefully this won't create tensions bcz at this point tensions with iran are simply not required and mark my words it will harm them and us and it will harm them more.