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Pakistan Claims To Hold Indian Pilot After Jet Shot Down In Cross-Border Airstrike

Both sides claim to have shot down the others' warplanes in what amounts to a major escalation of tensions between the rival nuclear powers.
Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district near the Line of Control on Wednesday.

In a dramatic escalation of violence over their shared Himalayan border, India and Pakistan both claimed to shoot down one another's fighter jets Wednesday, and video emerged of a bloodied, blindfolded Indian pilot in Pakistani custody.

Both countries accused the other of invading rival airspace. India the loss of one of its MiG-21 fighter jets in an "engagement" with

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