27 Feb 19: PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace: DG ISPR

[ziaulislam]

I am saying ANI has reported it.

Will wait for official /iaf/India briefing

 

[Great Janjua]

24 news live video Indian pilot

 

[ziaulislam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100646148585467904

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100645380897812480

Ispr will loose its credibility if unconfirmed .

 

[cerberus]

Pakistan Airforce Jets have successfully hit targets across the border - Foreign Office confirms

that was MI-17 helos confirmed now lol

 

[Signalian]

Kashmir escalation: Pakistan 'shoots down two Indian jets'

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Image captionIndian warplanes crossed the line of control and struck targets in Pakistan on Tuesday
Pakistan says it has shot down two Indian Air Force jets in a major escalation of the Kashmir conflict.

An army spokesman said one of the planes had fallen inside Pakistan and a pilot had been arrested. There is no confirmation from India which claimed to have shot down a Pakistani aircraft.

Pakistan earlier said it had hit Indian targets, a day after India struck militants in Pakistan.

The raids follow a militant attack in Kashmir which killed 40 Indian troops.

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Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor

✔@OfficialDGISPR
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In response to PAF strikes this morning as released by MoFA, IAF crossed LOC. PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace. One of the aircraft fell inside AJ&K while other fell inside IOK. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the area.


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Also on Wednesday, Pakistan's foreign ministry said Pakistani jets had launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) dividing Pakistani- and Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Pakistan said it had "taken strikes at [a] non-military target, avoiding human loss and collateral damage".

Indian authorities said the Pakistani jets had been pushed back.

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India has also reportedly announced restrictions on its airspace. The Vistara airline said flights in the region were being suspended.

The aerial attacks across the LoC are the first since a war between the two countries in 1971.

Troops have also been shelling across the LoC. Four Pakistani civilians were killed and 10 others were injured in cross-border shelling on Tuesday.

On the Indian side, five soldiers were also injured in the firing, officials told the BBC. Schools in at least two districts along the LoC - Rajouri and Poonch - have been closed.

People living along the de facto border have been asked to leave their homes.

Both India and Pakistan claim all of Muslim-majority Kashmir, but control only parts of it. The two nuclear powers have fought three wars and a limited conflict since independence from Britain in 1947 - and all but one were over Kashmir.

Timeline of India-Pakistan tensions

Media captionIn December Yogita Limaye examined why there had been a rise in violence in Kashmir
October 1947: First war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir just two months after they become independent nations.

August 1965: The neighbours fight another brief war over Kashmir.

December 1971: India supports East Pakistan's bid to become independent. The Indian air force conducts bombing raids inside Pakistan. The war ends with the creation of Bangladesh.

May 1999: Pakistani soldiers and militants occupy Indian military posts in Kargil mountains. India launches air and ground strikes and the intruders are pushed back.

October 2001: A devastating attack on the state assembly in Indian-administered Kashmir kills 38. Two months later, an attack on the Indian parliament in Delhi leaves 14 dead.

November 2008: Co-ordinated attacks on Mumbai's main railway station, luxury hotels and a Jewish cultural centre kill 166 people. India blames Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

January 2016: Four-day attack on Indian air base in Pathankot leaves seven Indian soldiers and six militants dead.

18 September 2016: Attack on army base in Uri in Indian-administered Kashmir kills 19 soldiers.

30 September 2016: India says it carried "surgical strikes" on militants in Pakistani Kashmir. Islamabad denies strikes took place.

 

[ziaulislam]

India has neither denied nor confirmed news

Deescalation is immediately needed

 

[HydNizam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100649004780711936

 

[j20611]

India rejects Pakistan's claim of Air Force jet being shot down, says all pilots accounted for: sources

Lagta hai khudke hi planes uda diye.

Of course all iaf pilots are accounted for including the one eating a roast beef sandwich in a Pakistani jail and the other burnt to a crisp

 

[jetray]

Pakistan Shot down Two Indian Planes

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/i...s-in-jodhpur-pilot-ejects-safely-2915351.html

IAF's MiG-27 fighter jet crashes in Jodhpur, pilot ejects safely
A Court of Inquiry will investigate the cause of the incident, defence spokesperson Colonel Sombit Ghosh said.
PTI@moneycontrolcom

A MiG-27 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashed in an agriculture field in Jodhpur's Banad area during a routine mission Tuesday morning, but no loss of life was reported with the pilot ejecting safely.

A Court of Inquiry will investigate the cause of the incident, defence spokesperson Colonel Sombit Ghosh said.

"The MiG-27 aircraft airborne from Jodhpur crashed during a routine mission today morning. The pilot ejected safely," he said.

The Russian-made single-seater tactical strike fighter crashed within minutes of taking off from the Jodhpur airbase. The pilot was taken to a hospital in an IAF helicopter.


Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jodhpur East, Amandeep Singh Kapoor told PTI that the incident occurred in Dangyawas police station area and no loss of life or property was reported.

"Police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area. IAF investigating team has also reached the spot," he said.

Eyewitnesses said that they saw two fighter jets flying together, but one of them suddenly took a turn towards the open field and crashed near Devalia village in Banad area.

"Two fighter jets were flying together, but suddenly one of them changed its course and took a turn towards the open area and crashed. We saw the pilot ejecting and he parachuted in to the agriculture field," Sunil Bishnoi, one of the eyewitnesses, said.

"We believe the pilot turned the aircraft towards the field in order to avoid the crash in a populated area," he said.

 

[Icewolf]

Unfortuntly that is the neighbor that Allah has given us.

We offered so many olive branches but they chose the law of the jungle.

I pray that one day Allah gives our neighbor a few more IQ points.

Exactly. Indians DO NOT WANT PEACE. Imran Khan stated many times that both of the countries should come talk together and resolve issues peacefully but India wanted nothing to do with it

 

[Armani]

Pakistan shoots down two Indian aircraft

The Sydney Morning Herald Reports.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/pakistan-shoots-down-two-indian-aircraft-20190227-p510p4.html

Islamabad: Pakistan has shot down two Indian jets, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since 1971, prompting leading powers to urge the nuclear armed rivals to show restraint.

Tensions have been elevated since a suicide car bombing by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police on February 14, but the risk of conflict rose dramatically on Tuesday after India launched an air strike claiming it hit a militant training base.

The attack targeted the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant, the group that claimed credit for the suicide attack. But while India said a large number of JeM fighters had been killed, Pakistani officials said the Indian air strike was a failure and inflicted no casualties. Pakistan then vowed to carry out a "befitting" response.

Then on Wednesday afternoon, Indian air force planes strayed into Pakistani airspace after Pakistan had carried out air strikes in Indian-occupied Kashmir, said Major General Asif Ghafoor, a spokesman for the Pakistan armed forces.

"PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace," he said in a tweet.

One of the aircraft fell on India-held Kashmir, while the second came down in Pakistani-held territory, and its pilot was captured, he added.




barkha dutt

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From #Kashmir bad news... @szaffariqbal reporting on an IAF crash in Budgam


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A spokesman for India's Defence Ministry was not immediately available for comment.

Police officials in Indian-occupied Kashmir said that two Indian pilots and a civilian had died after an Indian air force plane crashed in Kashmir, but did not confirm if the plane had been shot down by Pakistani forces.


Indian officials said three Pakistani jets had also entered Indian airspace, before being intercepted and forced turned back.

The Indian air force has ordered Kashmir's main airport in Srinagar along with at least three others in neighbouring states to be closed, an official said.

On Tuesday evening, Pakistan began shelling using heavy calibre weapons in 12 to 15 places along the de facto border in Kashmir, known as the Line of Control (LoC), a spokesman for the Indian defence forces said.

"The Indian Army retaliated for effect and our focused fire resulted in severe destruction to five posts and number of casualties," the spokesman said.


Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor

✔@OfficialDGISPR

In response to PAF strikes this morning as released by MoFA, IAF crossed LOC. PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace. One of the aircraft fell inside AJ&K while other fell inside IOK. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the area.


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Five Indian soldiers suffered minor wounds in the shelling that ended on Wednesday morning, he added.

"So far there are no [civilian] casualties but there is panic among people," said Rahul Yadav, the deputy commissioner of the Poonch district where some of the shelling took place.

"We have an evacuation plan in place and if need arises we will evacuate people to safer areas,” he said.

Local officials on the Pakistani side said at least four people had been killed and seven wounded, though it was unclear if the casualties were civilian or military.

India has also continued its crackdown on suspected militants operating in Kashmir, a mountainous region that both countries claim in full but rule in part.


On Wednesday, security forces killed two JoM militants in a gun battle, Indian police said.

Heightened security

Pakistan had promised to retaliate Tuesday's air strikes, and security across India has been tightened. The two countries have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947 and went to the brink a fourth in 2002 after a Pakistani militant attack on the Indian Parliament.

In Mumbai, India's financial capital, there was a visible increase in security levels for a city that has suffered numerous militant attacks in the past.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is in Vietnam, spoke separately with the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan and urged them to avoid "further military activity".


"I expressed to both ministers that we encourage India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, and avoid escalation at any cost," Pompeo said in a statement.

"I also encouraged both ministers to prioritise direct communication and avoid further military activity," he said.

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Ansar Abbasi

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Gift for India from Pakistan!!! Pakistan

Zindabad


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Both China and the European Union have also called for restraint. On Wednesday New Zealand's Deputing Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters also voiced concern over the escalation in tensions.

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Now an image of Hawk jet trainer crash from 2015 being passed off as shot down by PAF

https://odishasuntimes.com/iaf-fighter-plane-crashes-in-odishas-mayurbhanj/

Tail number - A3492

 

[PatriotLover]

Pakistan shoots down two Indian aircraft

Thats a Hawk trainer crash in eastern india in 2018.

Please post only confirmed news.

 

[Signalian]

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pakistan-airforce-shoots-down-indian-warplane-pilot-captured

Pakistan says it shot down 2 Indian warplanes, captured pilot

Pakistan’s air force shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday after they crossed the Kashmir border and captured a pilot, a Pakistani military official said.


Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor

✔@OfficialDGISPR
https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100641491679150080

In response to PAF strikes this morning as released by MoFA, IAF crossed LOC. PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace. One of the aircraft fell inside AJ&K while other fell inside IOK. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the area.


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Tensions have been simmering between the two nuclear-powers after India launched an airstrike Tuesday following a suicide bombing that killed more than 40 soldiers in India’s section of the disputed territory of Kashmir earlier this month.

Indian air force spokesman Anupam Banerjee in New Delhi told the Associated Press he has no information on the incident.

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was expected to convene the National Command Authority on Wednesday to discuss Islamabad's response to the incursions by Indian warplanes.

Residents on both sides of the de-facto frontier, the so-called Line of Control, said there were exchanges of fire between the two sides through the night. In Pakistan's part of Kashmir, hundreds of villagers have fled border towns.

Fox News' Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed

 

[darksider]

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[mjnaushad]

What is official statement from Indian side? Not the media version.