JF-17 used to shoot down Indian aircraft: Pak army

Pakistan’s military has said for the first time that JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft developed jointly with China were used in retaliation to India’s pre-emptive strikes on a JeM terror camp in Balakot as it once again denied that US-made F-16 jets were involved in the attack.

Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor said theIndian jets violated the Pakistani airspace on February 26, dropping payloadswithout inflicting any casualties or damage to infrastructure.

   

“The aircraft which engaged those targets and foughtthem were JF-17. As regard to how to use F-16, in what context [they] were usedor not – because at that point of time our entire Air Force was airborne – nowit remains between Pakistan and the US to see how the MoUs regarding the use ofF-16 have been adhered to or otherwise,” Ghafoor told Russian news agencySputnik International.

Agencies

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