At least, in typical knee-jerk reaction of the past, they didn't shoot the PIA 747 down.
Let's see now -- 1 KAL 707, 1 KAL 747, and one near miss on a PIA 747. Aw, shucks, can't ask the maintenance sergeant to paint the airline logo on the MiGs fuselage below the canopy. Maybe next time.
It's a long, long, way from the Pakistani border to Moscow. I wonder exactly where the Russian air defense picked up the PIA flight and/or whether it had a MiG escort all the way. If so, a lot of Russian kerosine went for nothing.