Pakistan Air Force appears to have found a rather convenient way to respond to India’s Declassified: Operation Sindoor documentary: replace evidence with animation.
On Pakistan Air Force Day, the PAF released a heavily graphics-driven video portraying an alternate version of the May 2025 conflict with India. Titled Fizaon K Pasbaan, the video claims that Pakistan struck as many as 32 Indian Air Force bases, destroyed two S-400 air-defence systems and shot down multiple Indian aircraft.
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Pakistan’s entire video for ‘Op Chaddi Banyan Marsoos’ or whatever is made with AI.
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There is, however, a glaring problem with this grand military victory presented on screen: the video offers virtually no real footage of the destruction it claims to have caused.
Instead, viewers are treated to computer-generated explosions, animated maps, digitally rendered aircraft and fictionalised strike sequences.
For a country that has spent more than a year claiming spectacular military victories over India, the PAF’s latest production is a remarkably convenient substitute for evidence.
Pakistan has been making these claims since Operation Sindoor
The pattern is not new.
Ever since India launched Operation Sindoor in May 2025, Pakistan’s military establishment and its information ecosystem have repeatedly circulated claims of having inflicted devastating damage on Indian military assets and aircraft.
Indian aircraft were supposedly shot down in large numbers. Indian airbases were supposedly destroyed. S-400 systems were supposedly eliminated. Indian military infrastructure was supposedly crippled.
The latest PAF video simply collects many of those claims and packages them into a slick cinematic narrative.
The difference this time is that Pakistan has apparently decided that when photographs, satellite imagery and authentic strike footage are unavailable, AI-generated visuals can fill the gap.
The video boldly announces that 32 Indian air bases were hit and depicts strikes on major Indian military targets. It also claims the destruction of four Rafales, a Su-30MKI, a MiG-29, a Mirage-2000 and a Heron UAV.
But where are the photographs?
Where are the satellite images?
Where is the identifiable runway damage?
Where are the destroyed hangars?
Where is the wreckage?
The PAF video provides none of the visual evidence one would ordinarily expect to accompany claims on this scale. Instead, it simply animates the alleged destruction.
The S-400 claim gets an AI makeover
Perhaps the most revealing example is the alleged destruction of India’s S-400 systems.
Pakistan had already claimed during the conflict that it had destroyed an Indian S-400 air defence system. India rejected the claim, which became part of Islamabad’s broader information campaign surrounding Operation Sindoor. The claim was further undermined when PM Modi visited Adampur Air Base, where the S-400 system that Pakistan had claimed to have destroyed was visibly deployed.
Now, more than a year later, the PAF has brought the same narrative back, only this time with an animated strike sequence.
The message seems to be: if the original claim could not be backed up with convincing evidence, perhaps it can be made more believable with better graphics.
That is not military evidence.
That is propaganda with a production budget.
From destroyed airbases to a destroyed India
The PAF video goes far beyond aircraft and air-defence systems.
Its graphics claim that Pakistan struck 32 Indian Air Force bases and disrupted India’s national power grid and fuel supply chain. It also depicts attacks on major Indian targets, including Parliament and INS Vikrant.
The scale of the claims is extraordinary.
The evidence presented for them is not.
A computer-generated missile striking an Indian target is not footage of that target being struck. An animated aircraft exploding is not proof of a shoot-down. A digital depiction of an S-400 being destroyed is not satellite imagery of an S-400 being destroyed.
Animation can illustrate a claim. It cannot authenticate one.
Pakistan has no evidence to back its claim. Which is why it had to rely on AI to create a video. India, on the other hand, had nothing to hide and had evidence in the public domain, with pictures available on the internet of the extent of damage Pakistan faced during Operation Sindoor.
The contrast with Operation Sindoor documentary could not be sharper
And this is where the timing of the PAF video becomes particularly interesting.
India’s Declassified: Operation Sindoor, released by Discovery and discovery+ on August 15, sought to document the 88-hour military operation through the testimony of India’s senior military and security leadership and actual operational material.
The documentary put India’s military triumph on screen through real footage and imagery of the operation and the destruction inflicted on Pakistani military infrastructure.
Pakistan’s answer is now a graphics-heavy production showing the destruction of India.
The contrast could hardly be more stark:
India: Here is the footage.
Pakistan: Here is the animation.
The PAF’s production therefore appears less like a documentary rebuttal and more like an attempt to create a visual counter-narrative after India’s documentary put the military operation back in the spotlight.
Pakistan’s problem: the claims keep getting bigger
The most striking feature of Pakistan’s propaganda campaign since Operation Sindoor has been the sheer scale of its alleged victories.
First came claims of Indian aircraft being shot down.
Then came claims of Indian airbases being destroyed.
Then came claims involving S-400 systems.
Now the PAF’s official video presents a sweeping catalogue of supposed Pakistani successes: dozens of Indian bases hit, advanced air-defence systems destroyed, multiple aircraft eliminated and critical Indian infrastructure disrupted.
With every retelling, the Pakistani version of the war becomes more spectacular.
But spectacular claims require spectacular evidence.
And instead of releasing photographs, satellite imagery or authenticated combat footage showing the alleged destruction, the PAF has released an animated reconstruction of it.
That tells its own story.
When reality is inconvenient, create it digitally
The irony is difficult to miss.
Pakistan is not merely disputing India’s account of Operation Sindoor. It is attempting to construct an entirely different visual memory of the conflict.
The latest PAF video gives Pakistan the perfect battlefield: one where every Indian target can be shown exploding, every Pakistani strike can be depicted as successful, and every military claim can be presented without having to confront the inconvenient question of evidence.
The explosions are real only inside the animation.
The destruction exists on the screen.
And the proof remains conspicuously absent.
More than a year after Operation Sindoor, Pakistan’s military establishment is still trying to sell the same narrative, only now with AI and computer-generated graphics doing the work that photographs and battlefield evidence were supposed to do.
If Pakistan really has the evidence to support its claims of destroying Indian military targets, it should release the evidence.
Until then, the PAF’s latest production looks less like a response to Declassified: Operation Sindoor and more like an attempt to manufacture, through animation, the victory that Pakistan has been claiming since May 2025 to continue to mislead its population.
