Pakistan Says It Shot Down Indian Jets, Carried out Air Strikes in Kashmir

A staff cleans Akash, a medium-range mobile surface-to-air missile defense system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), on the second day of the 5-day, of Aero India airshow at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bangalore on Feb. 21, 2019. Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images

ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI—Pakistan carried out air strikes and shot down two Indian jets on Wednesday, Feb. 27, Pakistani officials said, a day after Indian warplanes struck inside Pakistan for the first time since a war in 1971, prompting leading powers to urge both sides to show restraint.

Both countries have ordered air strikes over the last two days, the first time in history that two nuclear-armed powers have done so, while ground forces have exchanged fire in more than a dozen locations.