Navy rubbishes Pak’s claim about Indian sub entering its waters

New Delhi:  Dubbing it as “blatant lies”, the Navy on Friday denied the Pakistani Navy claim that it had prevented an Indian submarine from entering its territorial water.
“Indian Navy categorically denies the statement of Pakistani Navy as blatant lies,” Navy spokesperson Captain D K Sharma said.
He added that the Indian Navy did not have any under water movement in the said waters as claimed by the Pakistani Navy.
A statement issued by Pakistani Navy had claimed it has proved its vigilance and operational competence by detecting and blocking an Indian submarine from entering Pakistani waters.
“The unsuspecting submarine was detected and localised south of Pakistani coast on November 16.
Thereafter, despite submarine’s desperate efforts to escape detection, it was continuously tracked by Pakistan Navy Fleet units and pushed well clear of our waters,” the statement had said.
On Tuesday, Pakistan Navy said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor’s first cargo containers were safely escorted in the Arabian Sea towards their destination to the Middle East and African countries.
Meanwhile,the Indian Navy on Friday formally inducted four types of indigenously developed sonars that will boost its underwater surveillance capability.
The systems included Abhay -compact hull mounted sonar for shallow water crafts, Humsa UG – upgrade for the Humsa sonar system, NACS – Near-field Acoustic Characterisation System, and AIDSS – Advanced Indigenous Distress sonar system for submarines.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, who on Friday handed over the sonars to the Navy, praised the force along with DRDO and said he expects more synergy in the coming days.
The systems have been designed and developed by NPOL, a Kochi based laboratory of DRDO.
With the induction of these four systems, the underwater surveillance capability of the Indian Navy will get a boost, besides providing a fillip to the quest for self-reliance in this critical area of technology. (PTI)