Pakistan's defence minister Khwaja Asif claimed that Pakistani forces didn’t intercept the Indian drones as it would have given away the locations of defence establishments.
While Pakistan has failed to provide any substantial proof including visuals of wreckage of the supposedly downed Indian fighter jets, NYT decided to take ‘expert’ opinion of John E Pike, the director of Global Security, who speculated that Pakistan those five aircraft and the drone could have been downed by surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles. “Pakistan has both”.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has highlighted Pakistan's role in removing references to the terrorist group The Resistance Front (TRF), which claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack, from UNSC press statement
It is notable here that Yemen lies over 2000 km away from Israel, and the two nations are separated by the entire span of Saudi Arabia’s western coast along the Red Sea. The land distance even includes the breadth of Jordan after the Saudi mainland, still the Houthis have been trying to hit Israel with ballistic missiles for over a year.
South Indian film industry (Tollywood) perform well in the US. However, the tariff proposed by the US President will make it more expensive and difficult for Indian filmmakers to release films in the US. Ticket prices will rise, which could further deter audiences from visiting cinemas.
According to the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro, the two persons had tried to "recruit" people, including teenagers, to conduct coordinated attacks at a concert on Saturday, using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails. According to police, the attack was planned to gain "notoriety on social media."