US count found no Pakistan F-16 jet missing: Report
Live MintNew Delhi: All F-16 combat jets of the Pakistan Air Force are accounted for, the US-based 'Foreign Policy' magazine said in a report published late Thursday, citing two unidentified American defence officials, contradicting an account put out by India that its air force in February had downed a Pakistan Air Force F-16. In all its statements on the aerial combat with Pakistan, New Delhi had insisted that a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet was shot down by the Indian Air Force. “In that aerial engagement, one Pakistan Air Force fighter aircraft was shot down by a MiG 21 Bison of the Indian Air Force,” Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar said on 27 February in a statement to reporters in New Delhi. At a press conference on 28 February, the Indian Air Force had displayed before journalists parts of an air to air missile as evidence to "conclusively" prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets during the aerial raid targeting Indian military installations in Jammu and Kashmir.