New Delhi: India conveyed its condemnation by summoning the chargé d’affaires of the Pakistani embassy in person over the collision of a Pakistani naval vessel with an Indian Navy warship engaged in surveillance operations in the northern Arabian Sea.
A Pakistani naval vessel collided at high speed with an Indian Navy warship that was on routine surveillance duty in the northern Arabian Sea the day before yesterday. The Ministry of External Affairs said that there was no major damage in this incident.
However, India has strongly condemned this incident. In this regard, the chargé d’affaires of the Pakistan Embassy in India was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs and a protest was lodged. At that time, the Ministry of External Affairs said that India had strongly objected to him, stating that “a clash with an Indian naval unit occurred because of the unacceptable and unprofessional actions carried out by Pakistan Navy units at sea.”
However, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that the action of the Pakistani naval vessel was contrary to Article 10 of the agreement on prior information sharing regarding military exercises and troop movements carried out between India and Pakistan in April 1991.
In order to prevent such incidents from happening again, India advised the concerned Pakistani official to inform the authorities in Pakistan of the need for all military units to act with due caution and in compliance with the provisions of the bilateral agreement.
