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India has carried out several airstrikes on sites in Pakistan.
It's in retaliation for a militant attack two weeks ago on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir province.
26 people were killed.
India claimed Pakistan was involved, but Pakistan rejected that.
Pakistan's Minister of Information, Atala Tara,
claims that his country has now shot down Indian warplanes.
We've been saying that the Pahalgam incident deserves an investigation,
a fair and impartial investigation.
India ran away from the investigation and now they've run away after attacking civilian population in Pakistan.
But we've responded back and we've shot down some planes.
We stand against terrorists.
We stand against terrorism.
We've given 90,000 lives in the war against terrorism.
And we played our part to make the world a safer place.