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India, Pakistan wrangle over drone downing

REUTERS, Jammu
India's military said on Thursday it had shot down a pilotless Pakistani spy plane, which intruded into Indian airspace in disputed Kashmir.
But the Pakistani army said the plane had crashed on its side of the Line of Control dividing Kashmir because of engine failure and had not been shot down.
The Indian report of the downing Wednesday of the unmanned aircraft came just over a week after Pakistan said it had shot down a pilotless Indian spy plane after it crossed Pakistani airspace in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
"The movement of this unmanned (Pakistani) aerial vehicle was observed in the afternoon (Wednesday) and was knocked down immediately," Indian army Lieutenant Colonel Bhanwar Rathore told Reuters.
The Pakistani army said the Indian claim of shooting down the plane was baseless.
"A remote piloted vehicle of the Pakistan army currently undergoing development crashed due to engine failure in an area close to the Line of Control," it said in a statement.
The two armies also exchanged artillery and small-arms fire Wednesday night across the Kashmir frontier, but Indian defense officials said the firing was minimal.
The plane came down in the Mendhar sector of the Poonch district, 160 miles north of Jammu, Kashmir's winter capital, the Indian defense official said. Both sides often report intrusions by unmanned spy planes into each other's air space.
Indian and Pakistan forces frequently fire at each other across the Kashmir frontier which New Delhi says is largely aimed at helping Muslim guerrillas sneak into its part of the territory to join the 13-year revolt there.
Pakistan denies the charge, saying it only provides moral support to what it calls a legitimate freedom struggle by Kashmiris.
Earlier an AFP reports says a top civil aviation official angrily dismissed as baseless Wednesday an Indian allegation that Pakistan's air traffic control gave the wrong flight route to a US cargo plane, leading it to stray into Indian airspace.
The Indian allegation is "baseless and unfounded," said General Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) deputy director Air Vice Marshal Arshad Rasheed Sethi said.
He said the plane, owned by American Combo Corporation, was flying to the Maldives capital Male via India "on an established route" according to the flight plan submitted by the pilot.
"Hence, there was no violation of any kind," the official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Sethi as telling reporters in Karachi.