{"id":15450,"date":"2020-06-29T13:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15450"},"modified":"2020-06-29T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T08:34:45","slug":"pakistan-downs-spying-indian-quadcopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15450","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan downs &#8216;spying&#8217; Indian quadcopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Pakistan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani army announced Sunday that it had shot down another Indian &#8220;spy\u201d quadcopter along the disputed Kashmir border, where the two countries\u2019 forces have long been engaged in nearly daily firing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in the Hot Spring sector along the LoC,&#8221; the military said in a statement, referring to the Line of Control, a de facto border that splits the picturesque Himalayan valley between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u202a&#8221;The quadcopter had intruded 850 meters on Pakistan\u2019s side of the LoC,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth Indian quadcopter shot down by Pakistani troops this year, according to the military.<\/p>\n<p>Long-fraught relations between the two arch-rivals plummeted further following India&#8217;s scrapping of the disputed region\u2019s longstanding special status last August.<\/p>\n<p>Kashmir is held by India and Pakistan in parts and claimed by both in full. A small sliver of Kashmir is also held by China.<\/p>\n<p>Since they were partitioned in 1947, the two countries have fought three wars &#8212; in 1948, 1965 and 1971 &#8212; two of them over Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>Some Kashmiri groups in Jammu and Kashmir have been fighting against Indian rule for independence or unification with neighboring Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to several human rights organizations, thousands of people have reportedly been killed in the conflict in the region since 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Pakistan\u00a0 The Pakistani army announced Sunday that it had shot down another Indian &#8220;spy\u201d quadcopter along the disputed Kashmir border, where the two countries\u2019 forces have long been engaged in nearly daily firing. &#8220;Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in the Hot Spring sector along the LoC,&#8221; the military said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1467,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashmir","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15452,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions\/15452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}