India didn´t shoot down Pakistani F-16: report

A US magazine cast serious doubt Friday on India´s assertion that it shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet during the two nuclear-armed countries´ latest bust-up in February.

Citing two unnamed senior US defense officials, Foreign Policy said that US personnel recently conducted a count of Pakistan´s F-16s and found none missing.

This contradicts a statement from India´s Air Vice Marshal R.G.K Kapoor that India downed a Pakistani F-16 in a dogfight over Kashmir on February 27.

Pakistan denied at the time that this was the case.