Islamabad:
The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lieutenant Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said on Friday that India had drawn six ballistic missiles from Adampur from Indian Punjab, with a striking in the city itself and the other five landing in the general area of Amritsar, Indian Punjab.
Addressing an emergency press conference after midnight, the head of the ISPR said that India was targeting the populations in Indian Punjab, in particular the Sikhs communities, in the context of internal conspiracies.
“India targets through its programs, its Sikhs populations in Indian Punjab. All our sympathies are with the Sikhs and the minorities who are victims of its own internal plots (from India),” said Lieutenant-General Chaudhry.
“This is a shocking development and provocation of the highest order, where India has now started to pull ballistic missiles in its own population, which has no meaning. It is an act without mental health,” he added.
The declaration comes as India, in a frenzy of war, continues to beat the conflict drum, accusing Pakistan for alleged attacks without providing evidence, even when Indian drones strike the civil zones in Pakistan.
Pakistan, one day, had categorically denied carrying strikes on Indian military installations, by depositing the accusations of New Delhi as a manufacturing of facial economy after a domestic backlash.
The head of the ISPR, joined during the press briefing by Vice-Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, condemned the Indian propaganda which said that Pakistan had reached 15 targets in various Indian cities.
He revealed that India, not Pakistan, had drawn four projectiles on Amritsar the previous night, damaging his own infrastructure in what Islamabad considers a self-inflicted blow.
Lieutenant-General Chaudhry also revealed that one of the Indian missiles had fired dangerously towards Pakistani airspace. However, he was closely monitored and did not make a threat.
Earlier, Pakistan said that it did not “define” India without giving an answer to Indian missile strikes while Pakistan Air Force (PAF) presented irrefutable evidence for the decline in five Indian hunting planes for the first time.
Since the tensions between the two nuclear weapons neighbors turned into a military conflict, the representatives of the three armed forces jointly led a detailed press conference for the first time to the general headquarters of Rawalpindi.
The Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations, General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, was flanked by the deputy chief of the Operation Air Vice-Maréchal Aurangzeb Ahmed and the deputy chief of naval staff (operations) Admiral Raja Rub Nawaz.
“We will not disagree – with the damage that India on our side, they should take a hit,” said the military spokesman in chief when he was asked about the possibility of de -escalation.
Pakistan has promised to retaliate both, the place and how to choose the missile strikes in India in the early hours of Wednesday targeting six different places. The CEO ISPR said that at least 26 people had been killed, all innocent civilians.
He said that the youngest victim was only two years old and castigated India for celebrating the murder of a little one.
Another question about the current impasse, the army spokesman said that the situation would persist as long as necessary to protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Pakistan.
The CEO ISPR said that India was targeting civilians at Azad Cashmere and along the control line (LOC), while Pakistan responded by targeting the Indian military positions, including a brigade headquarters.
He noted that the Pahalgam incident occurred at 2:20 p.m., with a FIR recorded 10 minutes later at 2:30 p.m. In this short period, India reached the conclusion that Pakistan was late – a claim amplified by its media.
The CEO ISPR has questioned the credibility of these rapid conclusions and stressed the importance of examining the real facts.
The CEO ISPR disputed India to present evidence if it claims to have captured a pilot from Pakistan Air Force.
During the press conference, the CEO ISPR also played cashmiris recordings questioning India security measures, cashmere citizens and Indians calling the pahalgam incident as an intelligence failure.
He pointed out that India immediately blamed Pakistan for Pahalgam incident, targeting children, women and the elderly. He stressed that India used such accusations to divert attention from his internal questions and questioned the lack of evidence supporting his claims.
He also noted that the police station was 30 minutes by car from the incident site and added that India historically used terrorism for political purposes, often targeting innocent cashmiris.
The CEO ISPR said that India holds the cashmiris that accidentally cross the border and exploit them for its own program. He said Indian forces regularly kill innocent civilians without providing evidence and deliberately targeting mosques and other places of worship.
He also noted that India is orchestrating acts of terrorism in Pakistan, in particular by openly admitting in the sponsorship of terrorist activities in Balutchistan.
He said India exploits terrorist camps and seeks to divert Pakistan’s attention from the efforts to fight terrorism, the Indian media amplifying the accounts of active terrorists in Baloutchistan.
The CEO ISPR also accused India of participating in terrorism not only in Pakistan but also in Canada, to support groups like Fitan al-Khawarij and to make false meetings at the occupied cashmere. He stressed the role of India in the financing of terrorism and called for the responsibility of the Indian government.
On Friday, a senior PAF official for the first time provided details on how Pakistan killed five Indian hunting planes, including Rafael.
AVM Aurangzeb said it was the biggest air fight in history. More than 100 fighter planes have remained in the air for more than an hour.
He said PAF was able to detect 14 Indian Rafael via their electronic identifiers when they took off. The 40 fighter planes in Pakistan were in the air to defend the country’s airspace. He said that initially the instructions were only to dissuade.
However, he said that when it was established that Indian planes were going to attack, it was at this time that the rules of commitments were to determine to “ensure death, refuse loss”.
AVM Aurangzeb provided the exact calendar when Pakistan has shot down Indian planes and their locations. He also directed a recording of the radio transmission of one of the leaders of Rafael Squadrons, clearly establishing that one of the members of his team has disappeared.
“We have the exact details because you cannot talk about things on the modern battlefield. You have an electronic identifier. The plane is picked up by its data link as soon as you put your radar,” he said.
“I must say that it is not the equipment that counts all the time. It is training, it is the leadership that gives you the management and the property that this shows, this is what counts and the training,” he said.
“The operational competence of all training, I hope they are slow learners. But I think they can get the drift not to start again,” added Avm aurangzeb.
