A day after the Indian air in Pakistan, Pakistani warplanes have shot down attacks, according to military information, two Indian planes. India accused Pakistan a violation of its air space.
The Pakistani air force has shot down after the military, information on Kashmir, two Indian fighter planes. The machines have flown over the border, said an army spokesman. The Pakistani military spokesman, Asif Ghafoor said that after the shooting down of two Indian aircraft, a machine in the Pakistan, was overthrown in a part of Kashmir and the other on the Indian side. An Indian Pilot was captured by Pakistani troops.
Police officials in Kashmir announced that in the crash of an Indian military machine two pilots and a civilian had died. The firing by Pakistan air force, was not confirmed. In contradictory Indian media reports included talk of a plane, as well as of a combat helicopter.
“The only purpose of this action was to demonstrate to our right, our will, and our capacity for self-defense,” tweeted foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal. We do not want escalation, but one is completely prepared.
Several airports closed
India accused Pakistan a violation of its air space over the Indian part of Kashmir. The Pakistani aircraft have flown over in the Morning short the so-called line of control, reported the Indian news Agency PTI. A representative of the government of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, confirmed the information. The Pakistani aircraft had been rendered by the Indian air force pushed back. On the return flight they dropped, according to the PTI report bombs.
India Palace because of the tensions, the airports of Srinagar, Jammu, Chandigarh, Amritsar and Dehradun. The flight traffic came to a Standstill. Pakistan blocked its airspace for commercial flights until Further notice. The authority informed for civil aviation. A military spokesman said the blocking was made against the Background of the current circumstances.
On Tuesday, the Indian air force to handle according to its own figures extremists in Pakistan.
Alleged terror camp
India attacked had flown on Tuesday morning, according to its own representation of an attack on extremists in the Pakistani Region of Balakot to Kashmir close to the border. In the attack, many of the extremists were killed, it said. According to Pakistan six civilians in Kashmir, killed by an Indian Mortar shell. The country threatened a “surprising answer”.
the trigger for the recent tensions between the two rival nuclear powers was a suicide attack in Kashmir in less than two weeks ago, in which more than 40 Indian security forces were killed. To stop the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad known in the art, which is made for numerous terrorist attacks on Indian soil, is responsible, among other things, an attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001 that almost triggered a war between India and Pakistan.
India accuses the Pakistani intelligence and the army leadership to support such terrorist groups and thus for the attacks in India partly responsible.
Pompeo warns of escalation
US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo had asked on Tuesday both sides to restraint. An escalation must be prevented “at any cost,” said Pompeo after a telephone conversation with his colleagues in India and Pakistan. The Pakistan Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s foreign, he called on the information, to refrain from military action and to take “significant measures” against in their own country, active “terrorist groups”.
A spokesman for the Chinese foreign Ministry said China hoped that “India and Pakistan can exercise restraint, to take initiatives that lead to dialogue, half-way meeting, and the efforts for lasting peace and stability in South Asia organization”.
The Region of Kashmir that is partially Indian and partially under Pakistani control. Both nuclear powers claim the entire Region for themselves and have led, therefore, already a two-Time war.
Pakistan reports the Downing of two Indian fighter planes
Bernd Musch-Borowska, ARD New Delhi
27.02.2019 10:16 PM
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