Pakistan Deputy PM has a bizarre conspiracy theory after firing missiles at civilians in Punjab

Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has a bizarre explanation after India intercepted his country's missiles directed at Punjab's Hoshiarpur region. Not only did he blatantly lie about lobbing missiles at civilians in Punjab, Dar also peddled the outlandish idea that the missiles were fired by India itself. 

 

The remnants of a missile fired by Pakistan were in Punjab's Hoshiarpur. Visuals of the missiles, suspected to be Chinese-made PL-15E air-to-air missile, an advanced beyond-visual-range weapon with a range of approximately 145 kilometres, went viral on social media. 

 

However, Dar, in a bid to chuck responsibility, said India deliberately fired 'projectiles' in its Punjab province to blame Pakistan so that it can retaliate. He then bizarrely claimed that India fired four projectiles, three of them inside Indian territory and the fourth one inside Pakistan. Dar claimed that the fourth missile was shot down by the Pakistani air defence system in Pakistan's Gujrat region, which is about 87 km from the nearest point on the India-Pakistan border. 

 

Dar, despite holding a responsible position as the deputy Prime Minister, went on to bizarrely claim that firing the projectile was India's strategy to "falsely implicate Pakistan for inciting Indian Sikhs." Dar was flanked by the country's armed forces spokesperson also accused India of launching a false flag operation. 

 

ISPR Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry went on to contribute to Dar's theory that the four projectiles from Adampur, a town in Jalan­dhar district of Indian Punjab and three projectiles were "intently targeted" at Amritsar, while one was taken down over Dinga.

 

Meanwhile, Indian sources claimed that every missile fired by Pakistan was intercepted by the defence system. Besides Jammu, missiles were fired at Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat. 

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