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Islamabad, November 19

The Pakistan Army claimed on Saturday that it had shot down an Indian drone that crossed into Pakistan’s territory across the Line of Control.“Indian quadcopter has been shot down by Pakistani troops at 1645 (hrs), fell in Pak territory & taken over by Pak troops,” army spokesman Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa tweeted.

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He claimed the drone had “intruded 60 metres into the Pakistan side of LoC” and its debris “fell near Agahi Post in Rakhchakri Sector”.There have been some 286 incidents of firing and shelling along the LoC and International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani troops that have resulted in the death of 26 people, including 14 security personnel, since Indian army’s military strike on terrorist launch pads in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir on September 29. The strike came 10 days after a predawn militant strike on an army camp in north Kashmir’s Uri.  — PTI