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Zarar Trust is a registered trust under the rules of Govt of Pakistan, working in the area of health, child and mother care, education, and poverty alleviation. Trust is running a free health unit at Bau Walla village, in suburbs of Lahore.
Zarar Trust is named after Lt Zarar, a pilot of Pakistan Navy, who embraced martyrdom on 10 August 1999.
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News Coverage
Pakistani Military Plane Downed; 16 Dead:
By Zahid Hussain
"KARACHI, Pakistan -- Indian fighter planes shot down a Pakistani surveillance aircraft today. Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz said 16 servicemen were killed.
Both of the nuclear-armed neighbors claimed the plane was shot down in their territory. The French-built Atlantic-I aircraft was on a training mission when it was shot down near a small coastal town, Aziz said. ``Pakistan reserves the right to make an appropriate response in self-defense,'' he said. Aziz said wreckage of the aircraft was found a mile inside Pakistani territory.
India, however, said the aircraft was shot down after intruding into Indian airspace and failing to respond to warnings. The crash came a few weeks after India and Pakistan came to the brink of another war over disputed Kashmir. They have fought three previous wars since gaining independence from Britain in 1947, two over Kashmir. Aziz described the attack as a violation of Pakistani airspace, calling it a ``blatant and unprovoked act of military aggression against an unarmed aircraft.''
Yet an Indian air force statement said its planes scrambled to intercept the plane after it was detected by radar on the ground. Air force officials said on condition of anonymity that the Pakistani plane was in Indian airspace for 15 minutes. The jet fighters signaled that the plane should land at an Indian air base, but the Pakistani pilot ``acted in a hostile manner'' by turning his aircraft toward the Indian jet, the statement said.
The MiG-21 opened fire, hitting the Pakistani plane in the right engine, the statement said. Indian helicopters found the wreckage a mile south of the Pakistani border, near Kori Creek in the Rann of Kutch, a desert in Gujarat state. India had no immediate information on casualties.
Also today, Pakistan ordered the expulsion of Indian diplomat Madan Mohan Jetly because he allegedly carried out activities incompatible with his official status. No other details were given, but Foreign Ministry officials said his expulsion was not related to the plane crash.
The Atlantic I is a twin-engine, propeller-driven plane used by naval forces in Europe and Pakistan for aerial reconnaissance, anti-submarine operations and to intercept radio signals. The 100-foot-long plane is similar in appearance to a cargo plane, but with a long, tapering tail section that holds special antennas and looks similar to the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion. Its standard crew is 12.
India said Pakistan routinely violates Indian airspace in that area, and claimed eight intrusions from May to July. This year, India fought an 11-week undeclared war with what it described as Pakistani army troops in Indian-held territory. Pakistan denied its soldiers were involved and said all the fighters were Kashmiri militants." (source: Washington Post 08-10-99, photos: Atlantic by Michael Petrykowski; MiG-21bis by Indian Air Force)
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