Downing of plane raises temperature in
India-Pakistan dispute : CNN

Indian jet fighters shot down a Pakistani patrol plane Tuesday morning, killing all 16 servicemen aboard and threatening to push the two nuclear neighbors toward yet another conflict.

Pakistan's foreign minister, Sartaj Aziz, said the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan had been called to the Pakistan Foreign Ministry and a "strong protest was registered for the unprovoked attack."

"The responsibility for this wanton and cowardly act, as well as its consequences, rests squarely with India," Aziz said. "Pakistan reserves the right to make an appropriate response in self-defense."

Aziz said that Pakistan would also issue complaints to the U.N. Security Council, the Group of Eight nations, the European Union and Japan.

Pakistan said the French-built Atlantic-I aircraft, unarmed and on a training mission, was well within Pakistani territory when it was struck without warning by Indian air-to-air missiles.

The Pakistani military released video images of what it said was the plane's wreckage, found about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) inside Pakistan near the town of Badin in the southern Sindh province.