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Pakistan denies India shot down spy planeNEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Pakistani officials denied late Sunday that India had shot down an unmanned Pakistani spy plane intruding into Indian air space over Kashmir.
Pakistani officials countered India's report, made earlier Sunday, by saying one of India's own planes had crashed in an area India controls in Jammu-Kashmir. Later in the day, Pakistan said two other Indian planes also had crashed in Indian-controlled Kashmir. It identified the planes as an unmanned drone that crashed Saturday and a MiG-25 fighter that went down at Adam Pur airfield. There was no immediate comment from India on the latter reports. "The military officials of India are indulging in baseless propaganda to hide this loss," the Pakistani government news agency, the Associated Press of Pakistan, said in a statement. Indian army officials said the incident took place Sunday at 3 p.m. (4:30 a.m. ET) in the district of Poonch in Jammu-Kashmir, an area of heightened tensions in recent days. "No such incident occurred along the Line of Control," a Pakistani spokesman said. The incident came as the South Asian summit in Nepal, held to ease tensions between India and Pakistan, was concluding. The leaders of both countries ended the meeting with handshakes and talk of "courtesies" being exchanged. But there were few other signs of progress between the region's two nuclear powers. India and Pakistan each have massed thousands of troops and heavy weaponry along their shared border as relations between the two South Asian rivals plummeted following the December 13 suicide attack on India's Parliament. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of supporting the militants it blames for carrying out the attack and has demanded Islamabad crack down on their activities. For its part, Pakistan says the only support it now gives is political and moral and only to what it calls homegrown freedom fighters in Kashmir. -- CNN correspondents Maria Ressa in New Delhi and Tom Mintier in Islamabad contributed to this report. |
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