Pakistan said Dec. 13 that two Indian fighter aircraft violated its airspace. The Indian government has made no official statement, but the Indian air force is denying the incursion. Details are sketchy, but preliminary reports suggest the first incident occurred at 11 a.m. local time along the Line of Control in Kashmir, and a second incursion occurred at 12:20 p.m. local time near Pakistan's second-largest city, Lahore, near the international border in Pakistan proper. Pakistani authorities said that jets on patrol forced the Indian planes, which had penetrated some 2.5 miles into Pakistan, to retreat to the Indian side of the border. Pakistani Information Minister Sherry Rehman said officials had contacted the Indian air force, which said the violations were inadvertent. Given the tensions between the two nuclear neighbors after the Mumbai attack, and the details of the intrusions, it is unlikely that these incidents were accidental.