Islamabad:
The Minister of Defense, Khawaja Asif, rejected complaints on Saturday by the chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the destruction of Pakistani fighter planes during the Sindoor operation, describing them as “as incredible as they are poorly invented”.
The scathing replica occurred a few hours after the chief of the air chief, AP Singh, said that the IAF had killed five Pakistani fighter planes and another military plane during the military confrontation in May, according to which, according to Pakistani officials, the IAF lost six baskets.
In a statement published on the microblogging site “X”, the Minister of Defense Asif Asif said that it was “ironic” that Indian military officers made themselves “to face” a monumental failure caused by the strategic myopia of Indian politicians “.
He added that for three months after the operation, no statement of this type was made, while Pakistan had immediately provided “detailed technical briefings” to international media – supported by independent observations recognizing the loss of multiple Indian planes, including Rafale jets, as reported by world leaders, superior Indian politicians.
The IAF operates 36 Rafale fighters, while India signed an agreement with France in April to buy 26 other Rafale planes worth $ 7.4 billion for its navy, which has a fleet mainly comprising Russian mig-29 jets. Rafale is a Mulole fighter at two engines designed and built by Dassault Aviation de France.
While India officially denies the destruction of one of his war planes, the French air chief Jerome Bellanger said he had seen evidence of the loss of three Indian fighters.
Asif reiterated that “not a single Pakistani plane has been hit”, adding that Pakistan had destroyed six Indian jets, S-400 air defense batteries and unmanned planes, while deactivating several Indian air bases. He said Indian forces had also suffered “disproportionate” losses along the control line.
Difficult India “to open their aircraft inventories to an independent verification”, the minister warned that such a careful examination “would expose the reality that India seeks to obscure”. He warned that “wars are not won by lies but by moral authority, national resolution and professional competence”, adding that “comic accounts” politically motivated have strengthened the risk of a strategic calculation error in a nuclear region.
Recalling the Bunyanum Marsoos operation, the Minister of Defense said that “each violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity will invite a rapid, infallible and proportional response”, and that any escalation would be the responsibility of “strategically blind leaders” risking the peace of South Asia for “the political gains in exchange”.
The Asif Declaration occurred a few hours after the IAF chief claimed to have shot down five PAF hunting planes and another military aircraft during Operation Sindoor. Most Pakistani planes said Singh, have been shot down by the S-400 Russian manufacturing surface-to-surface missile system. He also said that electronic monitoring data had confirmed strikes.
“We have at least five confirmed fighters killed, and a large plane,” he said, adding that the large plane – which could be a surveillance plane – was shot down at a distance of 300 km. “This is actually the largest recorded air surface killer,” he added.
Singh did not mention the type of fighter aircraft that would have been slaughtered, but said that the air strikes also struck another surveillance plane and “some F-16” fighters which were parked in hangars in two air bases in southeast Pakistan.
