LAHORE:
The Federal Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, has reiterated that Pakistan knocked down six Indian combat planes during the four -day conflict between the two nuclear armed neighbors in May of this year and that the country had documentary evidence in the form of videos to corroborate its claim.
“We went down six Indian airplanes, with evidence of available video,” Naqvi said Sunday while heading to a seminar in the provincial capital of Punjab.
India launched a series of attacks within Pakistan on May 7 in what affirmed that it was a response to the militant attack against tourists in the Pahalgam area of Held Kashmir on April 22. Pakistan retaliates the attacks on May 10, which caused a high fire announced by US President Donald Trump the same day.
According to NAQVI, the war effort against Pakistan was not led by Prime Minister Modi, but by Amit Shah and Ajit Doval, who respectively serve as Interior Minister and National Security Advisor in the Modi cabinet.
The Interior Minister said that the Indian Navy, the Army and the Air Force did not have a unified plan.
He said that Pakistan’s intelligence institutions had access to each movement of India. “If one is determined with a strong faith, then almighty not only helps but also makes a destiny of victory,” he said.
The minister also said that Pakistan received divine help during the conflict.
“India triggered seven missiles to the Nur Khan air base, but none caused damage: they landed outside the base or elsewhere. In retaliation, Pakistan attacked 36 Indian positions.”
The Interior Minister added that during the war, Pakistan’s political parties joined, with the president of the PPP, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, played an important role in diplomacy.
He claimed that India is openly sponsoring terrorism in Baluchistan. Naqvi emphasized that Pakistan will continue to pursue the cause of Kashmiring until the purse is granted their right to self -determination.
“The credit for Pakistan’s response firm is for Field Marshal Syed also Munir and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who suffered the pressure and gave India an adequate response,” he added.
Last week, the Marshal of the Indian Air Chief Amar Preet Singh said that the Indian Air Force (IAF) had also demolished five Pakistani combat planes and a large plane during the Sindoor operation in early May.
Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, had immediately dismissed the statements of the IAF chief, qualifying them “as unlikely as they don’t have a little time.” In a statement published on the microblogging site “X”, Asif said it was “ironic” that the superior Indian military officers were forced to face “a monumental failure caused by the strategic myopia of Indian politicians.”
He said for three months after the operation, no such statements were made, while Pakistan had immediately provided “detailed technical sessions” to international media.
(With news desktop information)
