Pakistan says Afghanistan jet crash claim 'totally untrue'

The Foreign Ministry in Islamabad said on Saturday that claims by Afghan military and police of downing a Pakistani jet and capturing a pilot were "totally untrue".

"That's a false claim. Totally untrue," ministry spokesman Tahir Hussain Andrabi told AFP.

Earlier AFP report said a Pakistani jet has crashed in Jalalabad city and the pilot captured alive, the Afghan military and police said, with residents telling AFP the man parachuted from the plane before being detained.

"A Pakistani fighter jet was shot down in the sixth district of Jalalabad city, and its pilot was captured alive," police spokesman Tayeb Hammad said.

Wahidullah Mohammadi, spokesman for the military in eastern Afghanistan, confirmed the Pakistani jet was downed by Afghan forces "and the pilot was captured alive".