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INDIA/PAKISTAN

Jet downing raises India-Pakistan tensions

By Jordi Bou

February 27, 2019 - Pakistan and India say they have shot down each other’s warplanes in an escalating confrontation that is fuelling fears of a potentially catastrophic conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

India acknowledged one of its air force planes was “lost” in skirmishes with Pakistan and that its pilot was “missing in action” on a chaotic day, which also saw mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier dividing the two sectors of Kashmir kill six civilians and wound several others.

Pakistan responded by shutting down its civilian airspace as Prime Minister Imran Khan called for negotiations with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, to ensure “better sense can prevail.”

Pakistan and India have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947 and went to the brink of a fourth in 2002 after a Pakistani militant attack on India’s parliament.

EDITORS NOTE: The Fin Flash of the Indian Air Force is the one correctly used in our drawing. The similarity with the Irish flag is pure coincidence as the article given in our sources points out!

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PUBLISHED: 27/02/2019; STORY: Graphic News
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