NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Ministry quite unabashedly denied that its fighter jets violated Pakistani airspace.This has been the inveterate habit of Indian officials to do and later on deny doing, instead of extending an apology.It should be mentioned that Pakistan today (Thursday) summoned a senior Indian diplomat in Islamabad to protest against recent alleged airspace violations by Indian warplanes.The violations, denied by India, occurred at a time when relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals have been severely strained by last month's attacks on Mumbai by militants India says came from Pakistan.The irony is that the sort of Indian jets violations into Pakistani airspace occurred in Kashmir and Lahore, where, according to Indian claims, there were offices of banned groups.Pakistani fighter jets soon frogmarched these intruding jets out of territory. But, Pakistani leaders, in a bid to ease the situation, played down the incident by describing the violations as "technical" and "inadvertent."India's deputy high commissioner, Manpreet Vohra, was given a written protest against the intrusions, saying they contravened a 1991 agreement aimed at preventing such incidents, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.Indian air force spokesman insisted on Thursday that no Pakistani airspace violation had taken place."We stand by what we said earlier, that we have not violated their airspace. This is not true," said the spokesman, Wing Commander Mahesh Upasani.
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