Islamabad:
Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) LT Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Friday said India had fired six ballistic missiles from Indian Punjabs Adampur, with a striking in the city itself and the remaining five landing in the general area of Amritsar, Indian Punjab.
The ISPR chief approached an emergency news conference after midnight and said that India was targeting the people of Indian Punjab, especially Sikh society, as part of internal conspiracies.
“India is targeted through its schemes, populations of Sikhs in Indian Punjab. All our sympathy are with Sikhs and minorities who fall victim to its (India’s) own internal conspiracies,” said LT Gen Chaudhry.
“This is a shocking development and provocation of the highest order, where India has now begun to shoot ballistic missiles on its own population, which makes no sense. This is an act that is aware of reason,” he added.
The statement comes when India, in a war -hungry madness, continues to beat the drums in conflict and accuse Pakistan of alleged attacks without offering a strip of evidence, even when Indian drones strike civilian areas of Pakistan.
Pakistan one day had categorically refused to carry out any strikes on Indian military installations, such as waste of New Delhi’s accusations as a face -saving manufacture after domestic setbacks.
The ISPR chief, who was pressured by Vice Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, condemned the Indian propaganda, who claimed Pakistan had hit 15 goals across different Indian cities.
He revealed that India, not Pakistan, had fired four projectiles into Amritsar the night before and damaged his own infrastructure in what Islamabad sees as a self -inflicted battle.
LT Gen Chaudhry also revealed that one of the Indian missiles had turned dangerously towards Pakistani airspace. However, it was closely monitored and did not pose a threat.
Pakistan previously declared that it would not “step down” with India without giving an answer to the Indian missile attacks when Pakistan Air Force (PAF) presented undeniable evidence of the downturn of five Indian fighter jets.
As tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors escalated into a military conflict, representatives of the three armed forces together approached a detailed news conference for the first time at the general headquarters of Rawalpindi.
Director General Public Relations LT General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry was flanked by Deputy Chief of Air Operation Air Vice Marshal Aurangzeb Ahmed and Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) Back of Admiral Raja Rub Nawaz.
“We will not step down the injuries that India did on our side, they should take a hit,” said the top military spokesman when asked about the possibility of shell.
Pakistan promised to reciprocate at a time, place and way in which it chooses India’s missile attacks in the early hours of Wednesday, aimed at six different locations. DG ISPR said at least 26 people were killed, all of them innocent civilians.
He said the youngest victim was only two years old and threw India to celebrate the killing of a toddler.
To another question about the current stalemate, the army spokesman said the situation would continue as long as it was necessary to protect Pakistan’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
DG ISPR said India was aimed at civilians in Azad Kashmir and along the control line (LOC), while Pakistan responded by targeting Indian military positions, including a brigade headquarters.
He noted that the Pahagam event took place at 1 p.m. 14.20, with a four registered only 10 minutes later at. 14.30. In the short period of time, India reached the conclusion that Pakistan was behind – a claim that was reinforced by his media.
DG ISPR questioned the credibility of such quick conclusions and emphasized the importance of investigating the facts.
DG ISPR challenged India to provide evidence if it claims to have caught a Pakistan Air Force pilot.
During the press conference, DG ISPR also played recordings of Kashmiris who asked India’s security measures in which both Kashmiri and Indian citizens called the Pahagam incident an intelligence error.
He pointed out that India immediately accused Pakistan of the Pahagam incident and targeted children, women and the elderly. He pointed out that India was using such accusations to divert attention from its internal questions and questioned the lack of evidence that supports its claims.
He also noted that the police station was a 30-minute drive from the site of the incident and added that India has historically used terrorism for political purposes, often targeting innocent Kashmiris.
DG Ispr said India withholds Kashmiris, who accidentally crosses the border and exploits them for its own agenda. He claimed that Indian forces are routinely killing innocent civilians without providing evidence and deliberately targeting mosques and other places of worship.
He further noted that India orchestrated terrorist acts inside Pakistan, including openly admitted to sponsoring terrorist activities in Balochistan.
He claimed that India is driving terror camps and is trying to divert Pakistan’s focus from terrorist efforts in which Indian media reinforces the tales of terrorists active in Balochistan.
DG ISPR also accused India of terrorist involvement not only in Pakistan, but also in Canada, which supports groups such as Fitan Al-Khawarij and conducted false meetings in occupied Kashmir. He highlighted the role of India in terrorist financing and called for accountability of the Indian government.
On Friday, a senior PAF official for the first time gave details of how Pakistan shot down five Indian fighter jets including Rafael.
AVM Aurangzeb said it was the biggest air fight ever in history. More than 100 fighter jets remained airborne for over an hour.
He said PAF was able to discover 14 Indian Rafael through their electronic IDs the moment they started. Pakistan’s 40 fighter jets were airborne to defend the country’s airspace. He said the original instructions were only to deter.
However, he said, when it was found that Indian jets would attack, that was when rules for engagements changed from deterrence to “insured killing, refusing its own loss”.
AVM Aurangzeb delivered the exact timeline when Pakistan shot into Indian jets and their locations. He also ran a recording of radio transfer by one of the leaders of Rafael Squadrons, where he clearly stated that one of his team members disappeared.
“We have the exact details because you can’t conjure up things on the modern battlefield. You have an electronic ID.
“I have to say that it is not the equipment that matters all the time. It is the training, it is the management that gives you the direction and the ownership it shows, that is what matters and the training,” he said.
“The operational competence that the whole formation has, I hope they are slow students. But I think they can get the operation of not doing it again,” added AVM Aurangzeb.
