Pakistan\u2019s armed forces have rejected India\u2019s portrayal of Operation Sindoor as a military success, accusing New Delhi of using an overly theatrical documentary to rewrite the outcome of the engagement and distort the reality of its misadventure. In a statement issued on Monday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said India had refused to face the \u201charsh reality\u201d more than a year after Marka-e-Haq and had instead sought to \u201ccolour history in her preferred hues\u201d. \u201cMore than a year after Marka-e-Haq, India refuses to face the harsh reality. Instead of conceding defeat in a failed venture, India has decided to colour history in her preferred hues,\u201d ISPR said. Indian content creators, it added, had produced a \u201chighly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate account\u201d of so-called Operation Sindoor, packaged as a documentary featuring senior political and military leadership. \u201cFor its lack of nuance and seriousness, the documentary can be characterised as a tragedy and a comedy at the same time,\u201d the military\u2019s media wing said, adding that selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic Bollywood-style reconstruction had been used to alter established facts and rewrite the operational outcome. The documentary\u2019s account, it said, contained \u201cfundamental contradictions\u201d, exposing a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events. The documentary attempts to establish a deliberate linkage between an address by Pakistan\u2019s Chief of Army Staff on 16 April 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of 22 April 2025, \u201cconjuring a conspiracy theory out of nothing\u201d, ISPR said. India subsequently claimed that the three alleged perpetrators of Pahalgam were identified and eliminated on 28 July 2025, 82 days after so-called Operation Sindoor, yet the documentary presents the operation as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam. \u201cIf the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July, India must explain who it claims to have punished on 7 May 2025,\u201d ISPR said. The claim of \u201c100% mission success\u201d was equally detached from the operational record, the military\u2019s media wing said. During Marka-e-Haq, Pakistan\u2019s Armed Forces successfully thwarted Indian aggression and shot down 8 military aircraft, it said. Pakistan subsequently conducted Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, employing Fatah precision-guided rockets & missiles, PAF precision munitions, long-range loitering munitions and precision artillery against 26 military targets, including facilities used to target Pakistani citizens, and entities involved in fomenting terrorism against Pakistan, ISPR said. The documentary itself further undermines its claim of clear Indian dominance, the military\u2019s media wing said, noting that Indian military leadership acknowledges extensive Pakistani missile, drone and air activity, sustained engagements along the Line of Control and the activation of Indian air-defence systems. \u201cSuch admissions are difficult to reconcile with its repeated portrayal of Pakistan being decisively defeated,\u201d ISPR added. The documentary\u2019s account of the cessation of hostilities was no less revealing, the military\u2019s media wing said. Its own narration confirms that hostilities ended through communication between the two DGMOs and an agreed cessation of military action. \u201cThis alone contradicts the attempt to portray Op Sindoor as a unilateral Indian military triumph,\u201d ISPR said. \u201cA cessation of hostilities, facilitated by the US, cannot subsequently be repurposed as evidence of unconditional victory.\u201d The documentary also contradicts itself on escalation dynamics, repeatedly emphasising surprise, precision, deep strikes and escalation dominance while simultaneously claiming that India deliberately limited the conflict and provided Pakistan an \u201cexit window\u201d. \u201cThese competing claims expose the production as a carefully constructed domestic narrative rather than an objective military account,\u201d ISPR said, adding: \u201cIndia has not declassified the truth. It has cobbled together a propaganda video to project a military blunder as a successful endeavour.\u201d It said no amount of cinematic reconstruction could change the chronology, erase aircraft losses, conceal military casualties, alter the military engagements that took place or convert a battlefield defeat into a self-proclaimed victory. \u201cPakistan has no need to manufacture a narrative around Marka-e-Haq,\u201d the military\u2019s media wing stressed, adding that the operational record, battlefield evidence, diplomatic exchanges and India\u2019s own subsequent statements speak for themselves and are widely acknowledged by the international community. ISPR reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s commitment to regional peace and stability, while saying the Armed Forces of Pakistan remained fully prepared and capable of defending the country\u2019s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests. \u201cAny future military misadventure will be met with a firm, decisive and disproportionate response,\u201d the military\u2019s media wing warned, adding that no amount of \u201ccinematic perjury\u201d would be able to provide India with any face-saving. The two nuclear-armed neighbours fought for four days in May 2025 after India carried out strikes inside Pakistan on May 7, following a deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, weeks earlier. India called its military action Operation Sindoor, while Pakistan responded with Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos on May 10. The confrontation ended the same day after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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