Pakistan has shot down an Indian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) after the spy plane violated Pakistani airspace over the central province of Punjab, the official APP news agency said today.
The incident occurred near the border town of Sialkot yesterday, APP said quoting unidentified sources.
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"Later, the Indian UAV was seen dropping to (the) ground in the Indian-held territory of Jammu," APP said.
Around a million troops are in position on the India-Pakistan border in a military standoff sparked by a bloody December attack on the parliament in New Delhi that India blamed on two Pakistan-based pro-Kashmiri separatist groups.
There have been regular exchanges of fire between the two sides.
Earlier today Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said that his army had both an offensive and defensive capability and he was satisfied that this ensured there would be no war with India.
Addressing Islamic clerics in Islamabad, he said the Indian and Pakistani armies were still standing eyeball to eyeball on the border after the biggest military buildup since their 1971 war.
"I am fully satisfied that, God willing,... there will be no war," President Musharraf said. "We don't want war, we want peace, but if war is imposed on us then we are fully ready to face it with full might and power."