ISLAMABAD -Pakistan and Indian Air Forces Jets scrambled near LoC, PAF F16s and IAF Su 30 MKIs and Mirage 2000 Face off on Kashmir borders, Indianmedia reported.
A high level of aerial activity was witnessed at Mendhar in Poonch alongthe Line of Control and Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning.Eyewitnesses reported seeing several IAF jets flying over the area, ZeeNews has reported.
This comes a day after news agency *ANI *reported that the Indian Air Force(IAF) and Army will be destroying three to four unexploded bombs fired bythe Pakistan Air Force in Mendhar area.
These bombs were fired by Pakistan on February 27 in retaliation followingthe IAF airstrikes a day before. However, the bombs did not explode afterbeing released from their Mirage-III combat planes.
The development comes amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.The IAF scrambled Sukhoi-30 and Mirage 2000 fighter jets to chase away fourPakistani F-16s flying close to Punjab border on late Sunday night.
The Pakistani warplanes were accompanied with a surveillance drone,possibly trying to detect the deployment of Indian troops in border areas.
Defence Spokesperson, Jammu later confirmed that there “was no air spaceviolation by Pakistan along the LoC in Rajouri and Poonch.”
Tensions between India and Pakistan had flared after a suicide bomber ofPakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) killed over 40 CentralReserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwamadistrict on February 14.
India launched a preemptive nonmilitary operation, carried out by IAF’sMirage 2000 jets, in Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26 to decimate theterror camp of JeM.
Pakistan Air Force, retaliatory strikes downed IAF’s MiG-21 in aerialcombat and captured pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who washanded over to India on March 1.