India didn’t shoot down Pakistani F-16 fighter jet – report

A US magazine has cast doubt on India’s assertion that it shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet during the two countries’ latest bust-up in February. On Friday, Foreign Policy cited two unnamed senior US defense officials as saying that US personnel recently conducted a count of Pakistan’s F-16s and found none missing. This contradicts a statement from India’s Air Vice Marshal R.G.K Kapoor that India downed a Pakistani F-16 in a dogfight over Kashmir on February 27. Pakistan denied at the time that this was the case. Some of the aircraft were not immediately available, so it took US personnel several weeks to account for all of the jets, the official said. India’s Defense Ministry has declined to comment on the report, AFP said.