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<\/a>An Indian defence attache has claimed that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shot down six Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircraft \u201conly because of the constraint given by the political leadership to not attack the military establishment or their air defences\u201d, Indian news outlet\u00a0The Wire<\/a><\/em>\u00a0reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the PAF confirmed<\/a> that six IAF jets were shot down<\/a> late on the night of May 7, after India launched missiles at six Pakistani sites, including in Sialkot and Bahawalpur, as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three of the downed fighters were French-made Dassault Rafales<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This military confrontation<\/a> took place after New Delhi, without evidence, blamed Islamabad for backing terrorists who killed<\/a> 26 tourists in occupied Kashmir\u2019s Pahalgam in April \u2014 an allegation that Islamabad denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to The Wire<\/em>, India\u2019s defence attache to Indonesia, Indian Navy Captain Shiv Kumar, while speaking at a seminar in Indonesia last month, acknowledged that the PAF downed the Indian fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his presentation at the event, Kumar acknowledged the loss of Indian planes, though he said he \u201cmay not agree [with an earlier Indonesian speaker\u2019s claim] that we lost so many aircraft\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the loss, we changed our tactics and we went for the military installations. So, we first achieved suppression of enemy air defences and then that\u2019s why all our attacks could easily go through using Brahmos missiles,\u201d the Indian defence attache added, referring to Indian missile strikes<\/a> on Pakistani bases on the night of May 9 and 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kumar, IAF fighter jets were \u201coperating under strict political orders from the Modi government not to target Pakistani military installations or air defence systems\u201d, The Wire<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis self-imposed limitation by the government was intended to prevent escalation of conflict in a nuclear environment,\u201d the outlet added, quoting the Indian officer. \u201cIt was possibly based on the premise that the Pakistan military would not target Indian fighter aircraft flying in the Indian airspace, when India was not hitting any Pakistani military targets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kumar inferred that the restrictions imposed by New Delhi led to the loss of IAF jets since Pakistan \u201crefused to impose any such limitations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe political directions had meant that IAF had to carry out their missions while deliberately avoiding the most threatening enemy assets, which are typically prioritised in air campaigns to secure air superiority,\u201d The Wire<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wire<\/em> also reported that the Indian Embassy in Jakarta said Captain Kumar\u2019s remarks had been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have seen media reports regarding a presentation made by the defence attache at a seminar. His remarks have been quoted out of context and the media reports are a misrepresentation of the intention and thrust of the presentation made by the speaker,\u201d The Wire<\/em> wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe presentation conveyed that the Indian Armed Forces serve under civilian political leadership, unlike some other countries in our neighbourhood,\u201d the outlet continued. \u201cIt was also explained that the objective of Operation Sindoor was to target terrorist infrastructure, and the Indian response was non-escalatory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1921034<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indian defence attache has claimed that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shot down six Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircraft \u201conly because of the constraint given by the political leadership to not attack the military establishment or their air defences\u201d, Indian news outlet\u00a0The Wire\u00a0reported on Sunday. Earlier this month, the PAF confirmed that six IAF jets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[105,14210,39,17935,20577,18138,7706,4496,36,20576,20575],"class_list":["post-20986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-iaf","tag-india","tag-india-pakistan-war","tag-indian-defence-attache-claims-paf-downed-indian-fighter-jets-because-of-political-leaderships-constraints","tag-j-10","tag-jf-17-2","tag-paf","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-established-military-supermacy","tag-rafales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20988,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions\/20988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}