Move comes one day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for first time since 1971 war
Pakistan carried out air strikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge both sides to show restraint.
Indian air force planes entered Pakistani airspace on Wednesday after Pakistan carried out six air strikes in Indian-occupied Kashmir, said Major General Asif Ghafoor, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces. The Pakistan government’s official Twitter account released a video of what it claimed was one of the Indian pilots who had been shot down.The man, whose face is bloodied and blindfolded, gives his name and service number, before telling a man questioning him: “I’m sorry sir, that’s all I’m supposed to tell you.”
Indian officials said three Pakistani jets had also entered Indian airspace, before being intercepted and forced turned back. Five Indian soldiers suffered minor wounds in the shelling that ended on Wednesday morning, he added.“So far there are no casualties but there is panic among people,” said Rahul Yadav, the deputy commissioner of the Poonch district on the Indian side where some of the shelling took place.
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