{"id":44079,"date":"2019-02-27T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44079"},"modified":"2019-02-27T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:29:37","slug":"this-is-unprecedented-territory-pakistan-shoots-down-2-indian-fighter-jets-in-dramatic-border-conflict-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44079","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Is Unprecedented Territory&#8221; &#8211; Pakistan Shoots Down 2 Indian Fighter Jets In Dramatic Border Conflict Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-27\/unprecedented-territory-pakistan-downs-2-indian-fighter-jets-volatile-border\">&#8220;This Is Unprecedented Territory&#8221; &#8211; Pakistan Shoots Down 2 Indian Fighter Jets In Dramatic Border Conflict Escalation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update and recap:<\/strong>&nbsp;After some initial confusion and conflicting statements about the number of aircraft involved in Wednesday&#8217;s hostilities,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/live-blog\/2019-02-27\/india-pakistan-border-tensions-highten?srnd=premium\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;has produced this roundup of remarks from both sides that helps to clear things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Indian and Pakistani&nbsp;fighter jets engaged each other, resulting in the worst escalation since the war between the two in 1971.<\/li><li>Pakistan said it&nbsp;engaged six targets across&nbsp;the de facto border between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Pakistan said its fighter planes&nbsp;shot down two Indian fighter aircraft that&nbsp;entered its airspace. Two Indian pilots were in its custody, one of them in hospital.<\/li><li>India admitted to losing&nbsp;one MiG 21&nbsp;fighter jet in the aerial engagement. India&#8217;s Kumar said the pilot of the plane is &#8220;missing in action,&#8221; and the government is ascertaining Pakistan&#8217;s claim of their custody. India said it shot down a&nbsp;Pakistani fighter jet today.<\/li><li>Pakistan PM Imran Khan in his address to the nation sounded conciliatory, saying he was willing to investigate the Feb. 14 terror attack in Kashmir. He said a war won&#8217;t be in his or in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s control and&nbsp;called for a dialogue&nbsp;between the two.<\/li><li>China&#8217;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called for India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and offered to play a &#8220;constructive role,&#8221; while U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the two nations to &#8220;avoid escalation at any cost.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markets had already been bracing for an insanely busy session &#8211; with risks ranging from Trump&#8217;s meeting with Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, to Michael Cohen&#8217;s Congressional testimony, to Fed Chair Jerome Powell&#8217;s second testimony before the House Financial Services Committee (including Maxine Waters and AOC) &#8211; when they were confronted in the early morning hours on Wednesday with the prospect for nuclear war along one of the world&#8217;s most volatile borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This Is Unprecedented Territory&#8221; &#8211; Pakistan Shoots Down 2 Indian Fighter Jets In Dramatic Border Conflict Escalation Update and recap:&nbsp;After some initial confusion and conflicting statements about the number of aircraft involved in Wednesday&#8217;s hostilities,&nbsp;Bloomberg&nbsp;has produced this roundup of remarks from both sides that helps to clear things up. 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