'no Amount Of Jazba Will Save Pakistan': Ex-paf Official Gives A Reality Check, Says 'india Has A Force Of 16 Lakh...'

Masood Akhtar, a retired Air Marshal of nan Pakistan Air Force (PAF), connected Saturday chose to springiness a reality cheque to nan Pakistani nationalist arsenic nan tensions betwixt New Delhi and Islamabad proceed to escalate. Akhtar said successful an question and reply that nary magnitude of jazba (passion) tin prevention Pakistan, while highlighting nan glaring differences betwixt India and Pakistan's subject strength.

Akhtar told Dawn News successful an interview: "It has an service of 16 lakhs, and you person 6 lakhs. No magnitude of jazba (passion) will prevention us." He further said that India has a overmuch larger unit compared to Pakistan. "The governmental leadership's occupation is to look into nan future. What has happened coming should rattle each of us. It is simply a very difficult clip for us, for which we person nary reply arsenic of now.

He further said that de-escalation seems improbable until America pressurises India to do so. "And I deliberation that things are getting much and much tense because de-escalation will not hap for illustration this until America puts unit (on India)."

The retired Pakistani Air Marshal said that if America, China and Russia do not pressurise India, past nan business would beryllium very dire for Pakistan.

Reality of Pakistan's arsenal

Well, nan retired Air Marshal's claims do not travel without facts. Pakistan's subject and aerial arsenal person proven to beryllium surgery beyond repair truthful acold successful its ongoing conflict pinch India.

In an incident, nan Pakistan Army misfired a rocket that missed its target and landed adjacent a gurdwara successful Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch. Moreover, nan Indian aerial defence strategy connected May 10 greeting intercepted and destroyed a Pakistani Fateh-1 rocket complete Haryana's Sirsa. 

Not conscionable India, nan Pakistan Army is besides faced pinch its adjacent stock of challenges successful Balochistan, Waziristan, and Sindh, pinch militants, insurgents and separatists not only protesting against Islamabad but besides attacking Pakistani Army personnel. 

At present, nan Pakistani Armed Forces are surviving connected Chinese-supplied scrap weapons and irregularities successful nan procurement of weapons. 

India Pakistan tensions station Op Sindoor 

In nan early hours of Saturday, India targeted 3 cardinal aerial bases successful Pakistan—Noor Khan successful Rawalpindi, Murid successful Chakwal, and Rafiqui successful Shorkot—in consequence to ongoing ceasefire violations and nan Pahalgam panic attacks.

Noor Khan is conscionable 10 km from Islamabad and adjacent nan subject GHQ, Murid functions arsenic a drone warfare center, while Rafiqui hosts JF-17 and Mirage squadrons of nan Pakistan Air Force.

The Pakistan authorities has intensified its rocket attacks and separator shelling against India, citing retaliation for nan deaths of civilians connected May 7—an assertion contradicted by Jaish-e-Mohammad leader Maulana Masood Azhar, who confirmed that 10 family members of his group were killed.

In response, India launched Operation Sindoor, targeting complete 100 terrorists linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen successful precision strikes, which were applauded moreover by guidance parties for their measured attack to caller unit against visitors successful Pahalgam.