The Pakistani military announced on Tuesday it had “detected and blocked” an Indian submarine from entering its territorial waters.
The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the PR wing of the Pakistani military, issued a statement saying the incident happened on October 16.
The ISPR claimed this was the third time that the Pakistan Navy had detected an Indian submarine using a maritime patrol aircraft. The ISPR said the submarine was "prematurely detected and tracked" by the patrol aircraft.
The ISPR shared footage of the incident from an infrared camera that appeared to show the mast of a submarine, which could not be identified.
The coordinates on the video footage placed the submarine about 280km from Karachi. Al Jazeera reported, "The position would be just inside the boundary of Pakistan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), an area of coastal water and seabed that countries have exclusive economic rights over, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea."
The Pakistan Navy had claimed to have warded off an Indian submarine in March 2019, shortly after the Balakot attack. The Indian Navy dismissed the claim as "false propaganda".
