Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), cautioned that any retaliation strike by Pakistan would be so strong and definitive that its echoes would be felt all around the world.
” Pakistan strikes will be very evident and unquestionable. The military spokesman remarked at a joint press conference with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, “you won’t need the media to explain — the impact will speak for itself.”
Early Wednesday morning, India started strikes on Pakistan and AJK, an attack Islamabad termed a “blatant act of war”.
Islamabad claimed six targeted Pakistani sites ranging from hydroelectric dams to mosques. After India started an unprovoked and deliberate attack at six sites — Ahmedpur East, Muridke, Sialkot and Shakkargarh in Punjab and Muzaffarabad and Kotli in Azad Kashmir — at least 31 people, including children, were slain and 57 sustained injuries.
The Pakistan armed forces fired down five Indian Air Force (IAF) jets, seven drones, wrecked a brigade headquarters and several checkpoints along the Line of Control (LoC), in reprisal.
Later on, New Delhi claimed that Pakistan aimed missiles and drones against fifteen Indian cities. The Pakistan Army claimed at the same time that it destroyed 29 drones from India at several sites, including Rawalpindi, the garrison city, and Karachi and Lahore.
The DG ISPR declared clearly during the press briefing today that India’s claims—that Pakistan attacked 15 sites throughout Indian territory—are “utterly false.” According to him, India is seeking to support its recent military operations against Pakistan using falsified data.
The assertions made by India are unfounded. Their pictures of supposedly Pakistani missiles are ridiculous. At least a projectile of that kind would set dry grass on fire, but their so-called proof indicates no such damage, the DG ISPR added.
India claims, he said, that Pakistan fired 15 missiles, all of which were neutralized by Indian air defences. The DG ISPR laughed at these claims, nevertheless, pointing out India’s neglect of defending her own planes.
Referring to downing five Indian aircraft, including three Rafale fighters, one MiG-29, and one SU-30 by the Pakistan Air Force, he remarked, “If India says it neutralised 15 bullets, why couldn’t it prevent its own five jets from being shot down?”
Calling it “a very nasty and sinister attack,” he said India started a highly provocative and possibly escalatory attack on its own territory in Amritsar early in May 8.
Three missiles were specifically dropped off in Indian Punjab’s capital, he claimed.
He added that the fourth rocket entered Pakistani territory and was neutralised by Pakistani air defence. “Everything that is moving or approaching is under observation and taken out.”
Pakistan, he claimed, absolutely denies any intention or action meant to imperil the civilian population in Indian Punjab. Has the administration and army of India been functioning in the eighteenth century? He questioned: “When will they step out of the theatre and cinema and return to reality?”
India dropped missiles on Amritsar to stoke anti-Pakistan attitudes.
DPM Dar said during the press conference that India purposefully struck Amritsar with missiles and bombs in a determined action to generate anti-Pakistan feelings among the Sikh population.
“In a very sinister act, three projectiles were deliberately dropped at Amritsar, the capital of Indian Punjab while the fourth projectile which entered in Pakistan’s airspace was neutralised by Pakistan air defence and its debris fell in Denga which is inside Pakistan,” the deputy PM remarked.
He further said that this evil deed of the Hindu government unjustly linked Pakistan for attacking Indian citizens and fostering anti-Pakistani attitudes among the Punjabi Sikh population to externalize the growing communal conflicts inside India.
“Pakistan flatly rejects any purpose or action compromising Indian Punjab’s civilian population. Unlike the divisive policies of Indian leadership, Pakistan is still totally dedicated to preserving innocent life and regional harmony, he said.
