Indian Missile Accident Nearly Led to Pak Retaliation: Report

Wednesday, 16 March 2022Newsdesk

A day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh explained to parliament how a missile was "inadvertently launched" on March 9 and landed in Pakistan, a Bloomberg report claims that Pakistan had prepared to launch a similar missile in a retaliatory strike.

New Delhi, 16 March 2022

As per news report of NDTV, Pakistan held back because an initial assessment indicated something was amiss, Bloomberg quoted unnamed sources as saying. The Indian Air Force fired the BrahMos medium-range cruise missile from Punjab's Ambala, about 200 km from Delhi, the Bloomberg report said. The missile damaged some residential property but caused no casualties. India didn't use the direct hotline between the top army commanders on both sides to inform Pakistan, the Bloomberg report said. Instead, Air Force officials moved to shut down the missile systems to avoid any further launches, reported Bloomberg. Both the Indian Air Force and the Ministry of Defence in India have declined to respond to questions posed by NDTV on this report.

Source - NDTV