The security sources have categorically rejected the reports of the Indian media that claim that an F-16 combat plane of the Pakistan Air Force was demolished, calling the story “a shameless lie and false news.”
According to sources, India has been disoriented more and more after the failure of its recent Harop drones incursions. They claim that repeated setbacks have left Indian decision makers “paralyzed and confused.
“In a state of panic,” the sources claim, “India is now trying to justify the possible future aggression against Pakistan by manufacturing stories of attacks in Rajasthan, Pathankot and Kashmir occupied by India.”
Pakistan’s armed forces, they claim, are fully prepared to counteract any hostile design and remain attentive to the “dire intentions of India.”
The observers observe a surprising similarity between the current misinformation campaign and the narrative in dispute of India after the 2019 aerial skirmish during the replica of the Swift operation.
At that time, Pakistan knocked down two Indian combat planes in response to Indian air attacks in Balakot. India, however, said that one of his pilots, the Ala Abhinandan Varthaman commander, who was captured after expelling his Downed Mig-21, had managed to tear down an F-16 Pakistani before his own plane was demolished.
Pakistan denied the F-16 claim. Later that year, Foreign Policy magazine cited US defense officials who had represented all Pakistani F-16 and did not find any missing, contradicting India’s statement.
After the report, the then military spokesman declared: “India’s statements about the attack and its consequences are false. It is time for India to tell him the truth about the loss of his second plane knocked down by Pakistan.”
Despite the lack of independent verification, the president of India, Ram Nath Kovind, granted the commander of Ala Abhinandan The Vir Chakra, the third military honor of the highest India in times of war, for ‘demolishing’ an F-16 Pakistani.
Pakistan maintains his position that two Indian planes were shot down in 2019, and that PAF F-16 was not lost in the exchange.
