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| India says it shot down one Pakistani war plane, lost MIG-21 fighter | |
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| India shot down a Pakistani war plane and lost its own MiG-21 fighter, with the pilot missing in action, New Delhi said. Pakistan earlier claimed it had successfully taken out two Indian aircraft amid a spiraling border crisis. | |
| In an “aerial engagement Pakistani Air Force fighter aircraft was shot down by a MiG 21 Bison of the Indian Air Force” and fell on the Pakistani territory, the spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, Raveesh Kumar, told reporters on Wednesday. | |
| India took a beating too, he announced, having lost “one MiG 21” in the same encounter. The pilot is still considered “missing in action.” | |
| Kumar stated that Islamabad used its jets to “target military installations on the Indian side” but “due to our high state of readiness and alertness Pakistan’s attempts were foiled successfully.” | |
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