KARACHI: India claims of shooting down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet in an aerial battle during the February standoff between the two two nuclear powers have been debunked by the US Defence officials, Foreign Policy Magazine reported on Thursday.The US officials with direct knowledge of the situation told the Foreign Policy that US personnel recently counted Islamabad F-16s and found none lost.According to the reports, all the claims of Indian civil and military leadership seemed to be wrong as the count, conducted by US authorities on the ground in Pakistan negated fresh Delhi version of events, proposeing that Indian authorities may have misled the international community about what happened that day.The Modi government's claim to down Pak jet in February 27 dogfight was made to gain political mileage by the ruling party.
The Indian opposition parties too accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of exaggerating the event to improve its image in the upcoming elections.It is pertinent to muche that, Pakistan had shot down two Indian aircraft violating its airspace and captured pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan, who was later released in a gesture of peace by Pakistan.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source.
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