Pakistan rejects Afghan claim of fighter jet crash and pilot capture

Pakistan rejected on Saturday an Afghanistan claim that a Pakistani jet crashed in the city of Jalalabad as 'totally untrue'.

Pakistani official said that the claim circulated in certain media alleging that a jet was shot down in Nangarhar is completely false and untrue. “That’s a false claim. Totally untrue,” said Tahir Hussain Andrabi, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pakistan.

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Earlier, the Afghan military and police claimed that the jet has crashed in Jalalabad city and the pilot captured alive, with residents telling AFP the man parachuted from the plane before being detained.

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"A Pakistani fighter jet was shot down in the sixth district of Jalalabad city, and its pilot was captured alive," police spokesman Tayeb Hammad said.

Wahidullah Mohammadi, spokesman for the military in eastern Afghanistan, confirmed the Pakistani jet was downed by Afghan forces "and the pilot was captured alive".

The announcement followed an AFP journalist hearing a jet over Jalalabad, followed by the sound of two explosions from the direction of the city's airport.

Pakistan launched air strikes Friday on the Afghan capital Kabul and southern Kandahar, where Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is based.

The aerial attacks followed Afghan forces starting a border offensive against Pakistan late Thursday, which the Taliban government said came in response to prior Pakistani strikes on Afghanistan.