When questioned connected these claims successful a caller interview, Khawaja Asif said that it is each complete societal media.
Pakistan's defence curate Khawaja Asif connected Wednesday landed successful a crockery complete Islamabad's claims that Pakistani defence forces person downed 5 jets of nan Indian Air Force (IAF), including Rafales, during Operation Sindoor. When questioned connected these claims successful a caller question and reply pinch CNN, Asif said that it is each complete societal media.
On early Wednesday morning, India targeted violent infrastructure crossed Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), sidesplitting astir 80-90 terrorists.
"It is each connected societal media, and Indian societal media, not our societal media. The debris of nan jets fell connected their side. It is each complete nan Indian media," Asif told CNN's Becky Anderson. As per media reports, sources wrong nan Pakistani subject claimed that they changeable down 5 IAF jets and 1 drone successful "self-defence".
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Later, nan fact-checking portion of nan Press Information Bureau (PIB) said that nan images of a collapsed level shared by Pakistani societal media handles were aged and unrelated. PIB's fact-check portion said that nan image being circulated connected Pakistani societal media was from a clang successful 2021.
It besides said that these posts connected Pakistani societal media tried to walk it disconnected arsenic a downed Rafale during Operation Sindoor.
About India's Operation Sindoor
The action was seen arsenic a revenge for nan dastardly panic attacks successful Jammu and Kashmir's (J&K) Pahalgam connected April 22, which claimed nan lives of 26 people. Pakistan has acknowledged nan onslaught and nan casualties arsenic a consequence of India's precision strikes.
The authorities has maintained that nary Pakistani subject infrastructure was attacked, and nan selected sites were chosen pinch attraction to forestall nan nonaccomplishment of civilian lives.
In his first guidance to Operation Sindoor, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called it an "act of war" by India. Despite India's grounds of targeted panic camps, Pakistan alleged that nan strikes resulted successful civilian casualties, including women and children.
Published on: May 8, 2025 9:55 AM IST