India accuses Pak of cross-border drone incursions

India’s army chief said yesterday that the head of Pakistan’s military operations had been told to control what he said were drone intrusions from Pakistan into India, months after the nuclear-armed rivals engaged in their worst fighting in decades.

An Indian military source said there were five drone intrusions on Sunday evening on the frontier in the Jammu region of Indian Kashmir.

In another incident on Friday, a drone from Pakistan was suspected to have dropped two pistols, ammunition magazines, 16 bullets and one grenade that were recovered following a search.

Indian army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said at least eight drones had been sighted since Saturday. “These drones, I believe, were defensive drones, which want to go up and see if any action was being taken,” Dwivedi told reporters.