News agency ANI quoted government sources as saying that loud bangs heard in Poonch on Tuesday night were due to the sonic booms

New Delhi: Amid the lingering Indo-Pakistan border tensions, it has been reported that Indian air defence radars detected two Pakistani Air Force jets go supersonic just 10 kilometres from the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. The activity on the Pakistani side was reported near the Poonch sector in J&K. News agency ANI quoted government sources as saying that loud bangs heard in Poonch on Tuesday night were due to the sonic booms.
The sources said all Indian air defences and radar systems continue to remain on high alert.

Last week, the Indian Air Force had stated that it will continue to maintain a high state of preparedness in the wake of Pakistan deciding not to open its airspace in the Indo-Pak air boundary. The IAF had further said that it will proactively engage any perceived threat that emerges from Pakistan.

The Indian Air Force has been maintaining a strict vigil to thwart any fresh act of aggression from the Pakistan Air Force. It may be noted that a day after the Indian air strikes in Pakistan’s Balakot on February 26, Pakistan Air Force jets had violated the Indian airspace in Jammu and Kashmir and tried to target military installations.

On February 26, IAF jets had conducted pre-dawn air strikes at a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror training camp at Balakot – the government described the terror camp as JeM’s biggest.

The air strikes had come after the February 14 terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, in which 40 personnel were martyred. The attack was carried out by a JeM suicide bomber.