Pakistan calls IAF chief’s statement ‘implausible, ill-timed and politically motivated’

ISLAMABAD: Stung by the IAF chief’s assertion, backed with pictures and video photos, Pakistan swung into harm management, with its defence minister Khwaja Asif rejecting the statement that India had downed a number of Pakistani fighter jets and one giant plane in Operation Sindoor. Asif referred to as the statement “implausible, ill-timed and a dangerous distortion of the May clashes”. He additionally claimed the IAF chief’s statement was made “to serve domestic politics”.In a statement on X, Asif claimed New Delhi was trying to rewrite the narrative months after the combating ended. “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,” he mentioned.

Asif mentioned no such statement 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. Instead, 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 “several Indian airbases”.“If the truth is in question, let both sides open their aircraft inventories to independent verification — though we suspect this would lay bare the reality India seeks to obscure,” Asif mentioned.