Sunday, June 9, 2002, Chandigarh, India
 Updated at 3:00 am (IST)

UAV goes missing Lost on routine flight: India New Delhi, June 8 A day after US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the tension between India and Pakistan was easing, New Delhi today said it had lost one unmanned aerial vehicle which was on a routine flight along the Indo-Pak border in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan claims shooting it down New Delhi, June 8 Pakistan Defence Ministry said in Islamabad today that the “Indian aerial vehicle was on a reconnaissance and spying mission when it violated the Pakistan airspace close to Lahore and was shot down.

A Pakistan soldier looks at the part of what Pakistan claims is an Indian spy plane shot down in Raja Jang, near Lahore, on Saturday. — AP/PTI photo In video (28k, 56k)

Powell talks to Jaswant, Pervez
New Delhi, June 8
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh today told the US Secretary of State Colin Powell that India would carefully assess and “respond appropriately and positively” to any steps Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf would take to check cross-border terrorism and infiltration.

Armitage: Indian Embassy staff may be back in Pak
Tallinn (Estonia) June 8
India is considering to send back some of its diplomats to Pakistan and making “military gestures” to lessen tensions between the two, a top US official said today.

    Advani: Indo-Pak confederation possible

Three killed in Pak firing
Jammu, June 8
Three civilians were killed and as many sustained shrapnel injuries when Pakistani forces opened heavy and unprovoked mortar fire on the Pittal border out post and adjoining villages in the R.S. Pora sector and at Balnoi area in Poonch sector this morning, even as at least three Pakistani soldiers were killed in Indian retaliatory firing.