PM Imran Khan convenes emergency meeting after Indian intrusion

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has summoned an emergency meeting at the PM Office to discuss the prevailing situation, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Tuesday. 

The Pakistan Air Force thwarted an early morning incursion into its airspace Tuesday by Indian fighter aircraft forcing them to flee, the military spokesman said.

The Indian aircrafts intruded from Muzafarabad sector, Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet at 6:36 am.

He said the "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" forced the intruding aircraft to "release payload in haste while escaping, which fell near Balakot."

He said "No casualties or damage" were reported due to the dropping of "payload."

Pictures released by the Director General Inter Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor show a burnt out steep mountain side with no sign of any damage to any property, apart from a few burnt out pine trees.

A few shards of metal were scattered around in the charred grass.

The military spokesman in a tweet at 4:42 am said "Indian Air Force violated the Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow."

The incursion into the Pakistan air space follows a series of threats by Indian political and military leadership following the attack on an Indian Army convoy at Pulwama by a local youth, in reaction to the oppression unleashed by the occupational forces.