India and Pakistan summon diplomats after an Arabian Sea collision
Al Jazeera says Pakistan placed Tuesday's collision inside its SEASPARK-26 exclusive economic zone, while India's External Affairs Ministry called the same contact routine surveillance in international waters. Each capital summoned the other's chargé d'affaires. The New Indian Express says New Delhi summoned Pakistan's chargé on Wednesday, alleged a breach of the 1991 three-nautical-mile rule, and said there was no major damage.
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Both capitals summoned envoys
Al Jazeera says each capital summoned the other's chargé d'affaires after Tuesday's collision and accused the other of breaking the 1991 notice agreement. The New Indian Express says Pakistan's chargé was summoned in New Delhi on Wednesday and that India's chargé in Islamabad was told to lodge a similar protest. Pakistan said SEASPARK-26 has run inside its exclusive economic zone since 1 September. Article 10 of the 1991 notice agreement, as both desks repeat it, asks for a three-nautical-mile gap in international waters. Track plots were not released with either summons.[1], [2]
Pakistan places the contact inside an exercise zone
Al Jazeera reports Pakistan's Foreign Office placed the collision inside its SEASPARK-26 exclusive economic zone, said an Indian ship had tried to enter the exercise area since 7 September, and said a dangerous course change on 15 September brought the hulls together. Local media named PNS Hunain and INS Kolkata; New Delhi has not confirmed those names. India's ministry, in the same report, said a Pakistani ship closed at high speed and breached Article 10 of the 1991 agreement. Neither government released track data. The New Indian Express is silent on Pakistan's exercise-zone claim; Al Jazeera is the outlet that prints that Foreign Office placement. Naming the hulls remains a media claim until New Delhi confirms them.[1]
New Delhi says the hulls were not badly hurt
The New Indian Express says the External Affairs Ministry alleged a Pakistani ship closed in breach of Article 10, which requires a three-nautical-mile gap, and that the collision left no major damage. ThePrint, cited in that report, placed the incident late Tuesday in the northern Arabian Sea with the Indian ship on routine surveillance. Pakistan's competing account is not in that story. Fault and damage remain the parties' claims. ThePrint's late-Tuesday, northern Arabian Sea placement sits inside the Indian Express story, not as an independent third Brief source.[2]
