A day after an alleged Indian air attack on a terrorist camp in Pakistan, Pakistani fighter planes shot down according to military information, two Indian planes. The army spokesman Asif Ghafoor said on Wednesday morning on Twitter, one of the two machines crashed in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, and the other in the Indian part of the disputed territory.
The kills were made over Pakistani air space. The Indian air force had flown as a response to previous air strikes of the Pakistan air force over the De-Facto border, wrote Ghafoor.
Two Indian pilots had been captured by ground troops, said Ghafoor, a little later, at a press conference. One of them was injured and being treated in a hospital.
Shortly before that, the Pakistani had informed the Ministry of foreign Affairs that the Pakistani air force have flown over the de facto border air attacks. These were not in retaliation to “ongoing Indian lust for war”, – stated in the message, and therefore it was avoided human losses, and there had been no collateral damage.
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“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.
A spokesman for the Indian air force confirmed the crash of a plane of the Indian air force in the district of Budgam in the Indian part of Kashmir. For further information, the speaker is not made. According to media reports, it’s supposed to be a helicopter. According to army spokesman Ghafoor Pakistan have to do with this incident. He objected, moreover, Reports that a Pakistani fighter plane had been shot down over the Indian part of Kashmir.
The commercial flights have been cancelled, authorities reported at the airports in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir – Srinagar, Leh and Jammu. According to the Indian airline IndiGo no passenger plane landed and took off temporarily also in other North Indian cities – Chandigarh, Amritsar, Dehradun -.
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closed, According to the army spokesman Ghafoor were closed in Pakistan, at least three airports in the vicinity of the Indian border.
In the night to Wednesday were killed at least four people during clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops on the ground in the Pakistani part of Kashmir. Two of them were women, said the Pakistani information Minister Mushtaq Minhas. From the Indian side, there had been a machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire.
The tensions between the two nuclear powers have intensified over the past two weeks. India had announced on Tuesday that it had attacked a terrorist camp in the neighbouring country. A very large number had been killed “” a member of the Islamist terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed. This was according to own data on 14. February in the Indian part of Kashmir in an attack 40 the Indian security forces of a paramilitary police force killed. India had made Pakistan responsible for the attack and a “fee response” to be announced.
Conciliatory tones from Pakistan
The government in Islamabad has denied all the allegations. They denied also the information of India, have attacked a terrorist camp, and the Islamists inflicted heavy losses. Army spokesman Ghafoor confirmed only a violation of Pakistan’s air space. Pakistani fighter pilots would have responded “promptly and effectively”. This meant that the Indian planes were hastily dropped their cargo. There have been no losses or damage.
after the attack in mid-February, commentators had warned that even a limited military strike by India would increase the danger of a quickly escalating conflict between two nuclear powers.
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After the air attack on “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, India, throws “Aggression”
army spokesman Ghafoor struck in a press conference at midday on Wednesday, conciliatory tones and called on India to a peace deal in Pakistan. To start “a war is just to stop him again, but difficult,” he said. The state, the government, the armed forces and the people of Pakistan have always sent a message of peace to India. The path to peace was through dialogue. (dpa)
