Indian Jets Enter Pakistani Airspace

I should be in bed, but it looks like Indian fighter jets may have entered Pakistani airspace sometime in the past few hours. Dawn reports:

A Pakistan air-force spokesman confirmed that fighter jets from the Indian air-force violated the Kashmir and Lahore sectors of Pakistan’s airspace on Saturday.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman said that Pakistan responded to the situation by hailing the jets and having the air-force escort the fighter planes back to Indian airspace.

Speaking with Dawn News, Rehman said that the Indian leadership had been contacted, and that the incident was described as ‘inadvertent’, and that the Pakistan air-force and army had been placed on alert, but ‘did not wish to escalate the situation’ any further.

Reports on Twitter also suggest there may have been a "loud explosion" in the Arabian sea. (Unlike the BBC I'm not having second thoughts about blogging information found on Twitter- you all know how to separate fact from hearsay and opinion, right?).

Further information from our readers is always welcome.

UPDATE: The Indian Air Force is denying the incident.

(Thanks to UJ for the initial tip.)

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