India will stand like a rock against 'enemy attack': Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians Thursday to"stand as a wall" with anger boiling over Pakistan's capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals.
"India will live as one. India will work as one. India will grow as one. India will fight as one. India will win as one." Protesters set ablaze Pakistan's national flag outside the country's embassy in New Delhi Thursday. Police detained some but others ran away, witnesses said. New Delhi said it lost one fighter jet and a pilot was missing in action, later confirming he was in Pakistani custody. India also downed a Pakistani jet, the foreign ministry said.Islamabad said its incursion across the heavily militarised border was in response to Indian warplanes bombing Balakot, well inside its territory, on February 26.
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