She was responding to a question about Indian Air Force scrambling two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets on Monday after a Pakistani drone was sighted.

"I want to give this assurance that India and its forces are fully prepared".

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted Wednesday that India was fully ready to give a befitting reply to any attack and that the country was in safe hands.

She was responding to a question about Indian Air Force scrambling two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets on Monday after a Pakistani drone was sighted.

"I want to give this assurance that India and its forces are fully prepared and this is an example. We are ready to give a befitting reply to any attack like this. India is in safe hands," she told reporters.

IAF had scrambled two Sukhoi-30 fighter jets after sighting a Pakistani drone along the Indo-Pak border in the Khemkaran sector in Punjab. The drone soon retreated to the Pakistani side.