India-Pakistan Clash Intensifies With Downed Jets\, Captured Pilot

India-Pakistan Clash Intensifies With Downed Jets, Captured Pilot

Islamabad urges restraint after retaliating for Indian attack; New Delhi protests prisoner videos

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Pakistani and Indian jet fighters clashed in the skies above their disputed border, with each side claiming to have shot down at least one warplane and Pakistan capturing an Indian pilot, escalating military hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals.

As the U.S. and other world powers urged restraint, Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan publicly expressed concern that recent clashes would spiral into war.

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