JPR, sure sign that foreign powers are helping India. After all, they cannot build rail coaches. Do you expect them to build drones?
Pakistan: Jet shot down India spy plane
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani military jet late
Friday gunned down an unmanned Indian spy plane over
Pakistani airspace, officials in Pakistan said.
The incident comes during international efforts to ease tensions
between the two nuclear-armed nations over Kashmir. (Full story)
The spy plane went down about 10 miles (15 km) from the
border with India, or about 25 miles (40 km) south of Lahore, the
capital of the Punjab province near the eastern border.
Witnesses described a big fire at the crash scene. Military officials
have secured the area, the official said.
Troops and peace talks
Between them India and Pakistan have massed about a million
troops along their border and the Kashmiri Line of Control, which
divides the disputed region between them.
India accuses Pakistan of funding, arming and training Islamic
militant groups it blames for a series of attacks in Indian
administered Kashmir and a deadly attack on the Indian
parliament last December.
Pakistan has denied the Indian charges saying it only gives moral
support to groups waging what it calls a "liberation struggle" for
the people of Kashmir. (A tense few weeks)
Earlier Friday, top U.S. envoy Richard Armitage said tensions
between two nations have eased a little, but says it is too soon to
rule out the threat of a war over Kashmir.
"Tensions are a little bit down," Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage told reporters after meeting with Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the Indian capital.
Armitage had held talks with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez
Musharraf in Islamabad on Thursday on the first stop of his
mission to try to defuse the potential conflict on the subcontinent.
Musharraf assured him Pakistan would not start a war.
The tense stand-off has raised international fears of a possible
nuclear war developing from the dispute over the Himalayan
region, which already has sparked two w ars between Pakistan
and India.
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