Daily Mail: Spectre of nuclear war looms as Imran Khan warns India 'better sense' is needed 'given the weapons we have' after Pakistan parades captured pilot and both sides claim to have shot down military jets
* Pakistan's armed forces claim to have shot down two Indian Air Force aircraft over its Kashmir territory
* India in return say they shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet over Indian-occupied Kashmir's Jammu region
* Follows Indian airstrike in Pakistan's Balakot region on Tuesday in retaliation for February 14 suicide attack
* New Delhi claims a 'very large' number of Islamist jihadist militants were killed in Tuesday's airstrikes
* Today, Pakistan said that they have 'no intention of escalation, but are fully prepared to do so if forced'
* Pakistan has shut its airspace to all commercial flights 'until further notice' in response to escalation
Pakistan and India said today they had shot down each other's warplanes, in a dramatic escalation of the dangerous confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Pakistan said it downed two Indian jets in its airspace and captured two pilots, but insisted it does not 'want to go towards war' with its neighbour.
India confirmed the loss of one of its planes and said it had shot down a Pakistani fighter jet, in a conflict played out over the skies of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
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