Indian Coast Guard forced Pak Navy warship to return to its waters

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Nakul Shivani • 1 Years ago
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New Delhi

A Pakistan Navy warship, that crossed the maritime boundary line off the coast of Gujarat and entered Indian waters, was detected and forced to retreat by an Indian Coast Guard's Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft.

According to reports the incident happened in the high seas at the peak of the monsoon season in the first half of July, when Pakistan Navy Ship, Alamgir crossed the maritime boundary line between the two countries and came into the Indian waters.

Shortly after entering Indian waters, it was first detected by an Indian Coast Guard's Dornier aircraft, that was in the air after taking off from a nearby airport for ocean surveillance.

Indian agencies are very strict about maritime boundary laws and do not even allow their own fishermen to conduct fishing operations within five nautical miles of the border.

Dornier informed its command centre about the presence of a Pakistani warships in Indian waters and continued to monitor it.

According to reports, it issued a warning to the Pakistani warship about its location and was asked to return to its territory, but the ship did not initially respond.

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The Pakistani ship later retreated to its side of the international maritime border.