{"id":4611,"date":"2019-02-27T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:40","slug":"india-government-says-pakistan-attacked-military-installations-air-force-pilot-missing-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/india-government-says-pakistan-attacked-military-installations-air-force-pilot-missing-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"India government says Pakistan attacked military installations, Air Force pilot missing in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The foreign ministry briefed the media today stating that Pakistan had retaliated to yesterday\u2019s air strikes at Balakot conducted by the Indian Air Force, by attacking \u2018military installations\u2019 in India.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ministry spokesperson added that \u2018Pakistani attempts were successfully foiled\u2019 due to the \u2018high state of readiness and alertness\u2019 on the Indian side.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a brief statement read out to the media, the spokesperson stated that the presence of the Pakistani Air Force was detected \u00a0and the Indian Air Force responded \u2018instantly\u2019. In the \u2018aerial engagement\u2019 that followed, one Pakistani Air Force fighter aircraft was shot down by a MiG Bison 21 of the Indian Air Force. The aircraft was spotted to be falling on the \u2018Pakistani side\u2019 by ground forces. The Indian side has lost one MiG 21 through this encounter, the spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar stated. He further added that a pilot of the Indian Air Force is \u2018missing in action\u2019. The Pakistani side has claimed that he is \u2018in their custody\u2019. The Indian government however, is still \u2018ascertaining facts\u2019, the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The foreign ministry briefed the media today stating that Pakistan had retaliated to yesterday\u2019s air strikes at Balakot conducted by the Indian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}