PM Modi to hold all-party meet over Indo-Pak tension
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday will hold an all-party meet to discuss the ongoing tension with Pakistan, which claimed to have violated the airspace a day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted a surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), media reports said.
India conducted the strike days after 40 Indian paramilitary personnel were martyred in the Pulwama terror attack, which was carried out by Pakistan-based militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
Modi has also cut short his programmes to attend the security review meeting after Pakistan made claims of shooting down IAF jets.
Pakistan said it shot down two IAF aircraft and arrested an Indian pilot while India defence sources told a news channel that all pilots are accounted for.
In a statement, Pakistan claimed it has struck across the LoC from within Pakistani airspace.
Reports earlier said an Indian Air Force (IAF) jet crashed in central Kashmir district of Budgam on Wednesday.
The jet had taken off from Technical Airport in Budgam.
'The debris of the aircraft was found about 7 km from the airport in an open field,' the sources said.
A UNI report said two pilots were killed when an Indian Air Force (IAF) jet crashed in central Kashmir district of Budgam.
Pak violates ceasefire:
A day after a surgical strike on a terror camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad by the Indian Airforce (IAF) inside Pakistan, the hostile neighbour's troops targeted Indian forward positions in Uri sector in north Kashmir on Wednesday, official sources said.
They said Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate firing towards forward Indian posts and civilian areas near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector in north Kashmir district of Baramulla.
Some of the shells landed in open fields without causing any damage, they added.
Sources said Indian troops also retaliated and the exchange of heavy fire continued. However, the damage suffered from across the border was not immediately known.
Meanwhile, with Pakistani jets reportedly violating Indian air space in Nowshera sector in Jammu region, the Srinagar International Airport was on Wednesday morning closed for commercial flights.
Official sources said that the airport was closed due to ongoing Air Force operations at Srinagar airport. “Flights about to land were diverted back to New Delhi,” they said.
Meanwhile, passengers at Srinagar airport, said that announcement was made that the airport has been closed due to ongoing Air Force operations.
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