Restraint urged after Pakistan shoots down two Indian jets
Both countries have ordered airstrikes over the last two days, the first time in history that two nuclear armed powers have done so. Ground forces have exchanged fire in more than a dozen locations. 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 14 February.The risk of conflict rose dramatically yesterday when India launched an airstrike on what it said was a militant training base.
One of the aircraft crashed on India's side of Kashmir, while the second came down in Pakistani-held territory and its pilot was captured, he added. In a statement, Pakistan's foreign ministry said it had hit a "non-military" target inside Indian-controlled Kashmir, but that it had avoided human loss and collateral damage.
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