ISLAMABAD: Stung by the IAF chief’s assertion, backed with pictures and video photographs, Pakistan swung into injury management, with its defence minister Khwaja Asif rejecting the assertion that India had downed a number of Pakistani fighter jets and one giant plane in Operation Sindoor. Asif known as the assertion “implausible, ill-timed and a harmful distortion of the Might clashes”. He additionally claimed the IAF chief’s assertion was made “to serve home politics”.In an announcement on X, Asif claimed New Delhi was trying to rewrite the narrative months after the combating ended. “It’s ironic how senior Indian army officers are getting used because the faces of monumental failure attributable to the strategic shortsightedness of Indian politicians,” he mentioned.
Asif mentioned no such assertion on Pakistani losses had surfaced for 3 months, whereas Pakistan had instantly shared “detailed technical briefings” with the worldwide media.The minister insisted not a single Pakistani plane was destroyed. As a substitute, he claimed Pakistan’s forces had shot down six Indian jets, together with superior fighters, destroyed S-400 air defence programs, downed unmanned plane, and disabled “a number of Indian airbases”.“If the reality is in query, let each side open their plane inventories to impartial verification — although we suspect this might lay naked the fact India seeks to obscure,” Asif mentioned.