Pakistan

As India continues to hit target inside Pakistan as part of Operation Sindoor, foreign secretary Vikram Misri held a special briefing on the operation on Thursday evening.

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”.

J-10C, like most of the domestically-developed Chinese platforms had not yet been battle-tested till now, so they also needed this fake news of it bringing down a Rafale to show that this fighter jet is good for active combat.

Pakistan Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that as many as 9 different places in Pakistan were targeted by Indian drones.

The anchor even schooled the minister for discussing social media reports instead of providing evidence for his claims.

With their aerial precision and manoeuvring capabilities, the drones provide a critical advantage in a modern battlefield.

Operation Sindoor: Detail list of the 9 targets hit by India, which terror group operates them and what activities are held there

Responding to OpIndia’s email query, Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra said that The Irish Times has been “extremely negative” towards India.

Not a single missile fired by India was intercepted by Chinese air defence system, paraded by Pakistan as the state-of-the-art solutions against aerial threats.

This is not the first time Pakistan has blocked scrutiny following strikes by Indian armed forces. After the two successful strikes by India in 2016 (surgical strike) and 2019 (Balakot air strike), Islamabad adopted a similar approach.