Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said on Friday a wave of drone attacks launched by India this week was aimed at detecting the location of Pakistani weapons systems, as PTV state television reported that 77 drones had been shot down.
India and Pakistan have since Thursday accused each other of carrying out waves of drone attacks in the worst confrontation between the nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors in nearly three decades.
Pakistan’s army said it shot down 29 Indian drones on Thursday while New Delhi accused Islamabad of launching overnight raids with “drones and missiles” and claimed it destroyed an air defense system in Lahore, which Islamabad denied.
“Pakistani forces have destroyed a total of 77 Indian drones,” Pakistan Television reported on Friday.
“By the evening of May 8, 29 Indian drones had been shot down, while another 48 drones had been destroyed between last night [Thursday] and today [Friday].”
