Pakistan counters IAF chief; claims not a single Pakistani aircraft was destroyed by India

Refuting Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh's statement that the Indian Air Force (IAF) shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and a large aircraft during Operation Sindoor, Pakistan claimed that none of its military aircraft were hit or destroyed by the Indian armed forces.

 

"We have at least five fighters confirmed killed and one large aircraft, which could be either an aircraft or an AWC, which was taken at a distance of about 300 kilometres. This is actually the largest ever recorded surface-to-air kill that we can talk about," Singh had said on Saturday during a public lecture in Bengaluru.

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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif claimed that the assertion of the IAF chief was "implausible as they are ill-timed."

 

In a tweet, the Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif claimed that it is ironic how senior Indian military officers are being used as the faces of "monumental failure" caused by the strategic shortsightedness of Indian politicians. "For three months, no such claims were voiced — while Pakistan, in the immediate aftermath, presented detailed technical briefings to the international media, and independent observers recorded widespread acknowledgment of the loss of multiple Indian aircraft, including Rafales, by sources ranging from world leaders, senior Indian politicians to foreign intelligence assessments,” he said.

 

He claimed that not a single Pakistani aircraft was hit or destroyed and said Pakistan downed six Indian jets.

 

According to him, the losses that Indian armed forces suffered along the Line of Control were "disproportionately heavier.”

 

He said both India and Pakistan should open their aircraft inventories to independent verification to know the truth. 

 

Ironically, Asif, the defence minister of the country that has been waging a vicious misinfoamtion campaign ever since the start of Operation Sindoor, observed that “wars are not won by falsehoods” but by “moral authority, national resolve and professional competence.”

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