{"id":1373328,"date":"2022-03-12T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373328"},"modified":"2022-03-12T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:11:08","slug":"india-says-it-accidentally-fired-supersonic-missile-into-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/india-says-it-accidentally-fired-supersonic-missile-into-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"India Says it &#039;Accidentally&#039; Fired &#039;Supersonic&#039; Missile into Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findia-says-it-accidentally-fired-supersonic-missile-into-pakistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">India\u2019s Defense Ministry said on Friday it accidentally <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/india-accidentally-fired-missile-into-pakistan-defence-ministry\/articleshow\/90154694.cms\">fired<\/a> a missile into neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday due to a \u201ctechnical malfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn 9 March 2022, in the course of a routine maintenance, a technical malfunction led to the accidental firing of a missile,\u201d the Indian Ministry of Defense said in a statement issued on March 11.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt 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,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1805148\">statement<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s government has \u201ctaken a serious view [of the incident]\u201d and ordered a high-level inquiry into the accident this week, the Defense Ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian missile fired into Pakistan territory on March 9 was \u201cunarmed,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1679443\/india-says-regrets-accidental-firing-of-missile-inside-pakistan\">confirmed<\/a> on March 10. The projectile landed near eastern Pakistan\u2019s Mian Channu city, which is located roughly 310 miles from the Pakistani national capital of Islamabad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pakistan Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Babar Iftikhar detailed the incident during a press briefing on Thursday, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On March 9, at 6:43 pm, a high-speed flying object was picked up inside the Indian territory by Air Defence Operations Centre of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF).<\/p>\n<p>From its initial course, the object suddenly manoeuvred towards Pakistani territory and violated Pakistan\u2019s air space, ultimately falling near Mian Channu at 6:50pm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Iftikhar said the projectile in question \u201cwas a supersonic flying object, most probably a missile, but it was certainly unarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Air Vice Marshall Tariq Zia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1679289\">told<\/a> reporters on March 10 the projectile \u201cwas 40,000 feet high\u201d while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/pakistan-seeks-answers-india-after-crash-mystery-flying-object-2022-03-10\/\">flying<\/a> at three times the speed of sound. The missile traveled 77 miles into Pakistani airspace from an origin point in the\u00a0northwestern Indian city of Sirsa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to highlight that the flight path of this object endangered many international and domestic passenger flights \u2014 both in Indian and Pakistani air space,\u201d Iftikhar said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/pakistan-summons-indian-charge-daffaires-over-alleged-violation-of-its-airspace\/868431\/\">summoned<\/a> India\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires in Islamabad on March 10 to issue the envoy a formal diplomatic protest against the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian Cd\u2019A [charge d\u2019affaires] was told to convey to the Government of India Pakistan\u2019s strong condemnation of this blatant violation of Pakistani airspace in contravention of the established international norms and aviation safety protocols,\u201d Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian diplomat was conveyed that the imprudent launch of the flying object not only caused damage to civilian property but also put at risk human lives on [the] ground,\u201d the ministry added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Defense Ministry said on Friday it accidentally fired a missile into neighboring Pakistan on Wednesday due to a \u201ctechnical malfunction.\u201d \u201cOn 9 March 2022, in the course of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}