ISLAMABAD, Nov 3, Reuter: Pakistani fighters shot down an intruding Afghan warplane on Thursday and the pilot was captured, state run television reported.
It said patrolling F-16 Pakistani fighter intercepted two Afghan planes 13-km inside Pakistani air space.
One of the alleged intruders was shot down with a missile and the wreckage fell not far from that, southwest of the provincial capital of Peshawar, it said.
A government statement said the plane was shot down in the morning by an air to air missile not far from Thal, south-west of the North West frontier province capital of Peshawar.
State-run Pakistani television showed what it described as the booming wreckage of the plane.
The Kabul radio report said the first of its two planes downed was hit in the morning by two rockets fired by one of the two F-168 which followed it during a flight 20 km (12 miles) east of Coast.
It said the Afghan plane crashed, without specifying the location.
The radio said another Afghan jet on a training flight was hit by a rocket fired by an intruding Pakistani F-16 over the coast area in the afternoon and it crashed on the town of Coast.
The Afghan Foreign ministry lodged a strong protest with the Pakistani charge d-affaires in Kabul, the radio said.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 11, 1988
