The initial report that came out late on the evening of 9 March from Dawn, Pakistan’s most widely read newspaper, was confusing. It suggested that a private aircraft had crashed in Mian Channu, a city in the Pakistani province of Punjab, with its lone occupant safe. “Police cordoned off the area and did not allow rescue officials to come close to the jet,” the report said. “The rescue officials were asked to leave as the army authorities were coming to collect the evidence. Later, the army officers launched a search for collecting pieces of the jet.”
There was greater clarity when a Pakistani military spokesperson held a press conference the next day. He said that the Pakistan Air Force had continuously monitored the complete flight path of the flying object, an Indian missile, from its point of origin near the town of Sirsa, in Haryana, till its point of impact, 124 kilometres inside Pakistan. The flight had lasted 406 seconds, 224 of them inside Pakistani airspace. He showed an annotated map of the missile’s path, stating that, “from its initial course, the object suddenly manoeuvred towards the Pakistani territory and violated Pakistan’s airspace ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6.50 pm.” He claimed that the PAF had initiated requisite tactical actions in accordance with standard operating procedures.
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