Washington: The news of Indian missile landing in Pakistan territory has hit international headlines, and America, which has taken note of it, has asserted that it does not think that India launched the missile intentionally at Pakistan.

The US has made clear that that the incident is nothing but an accidental one and not done intentionally.

It may be noted that India had made it categorically clear that the missile got fired by it accidentally that landed up in Pakistan territory on Friday. India has called the incident "deeply regrettable" and said that it could have been caused by a technical malfunction in the course of its routine maintenance.

"We have no indication as you also heard from our Indian partners that this incident was anything other than an accident," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference on Monday.

"We refer you of course to the Indian Ministry of Defense for any follow up. They issued a statement on March 9th to explain precisely what had happened. We don't have a comment beyond that," Price said in response to a question.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi  held a high-level meeting to review security preparedness following India accidentally fired missile 124 km into Pakistan’s Punjab province. The PM was briefed about the government’s responses to the incident and landed .

The meeting was attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla. Home Minister Amit Shah did not attend the meeting as he was in Gujarat.