Rawalpindi (Web Desk): The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has warned that any future military misadventure by India will be met a firm, decisive and disproportionate response, after which no amount of cinematic perjury will be able to provide any face-saving to India.
“Pakistan remains committed to regional peace and stability. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Pakistan remain fully prepared and capable of defending the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests,” said a statement issued by ISPR.
The military's media wing said that more than a year after Marka-e-Haq, India was still unwilling to acknowledge what actually happened. Rather than accepting the outcome of what Pakistan described as a failed military venture, the statement said, India was attempting to reshape the historical record according to its own preferred narrative.
“Instead of conceding defeat in a failed venture, India has decided to colour history in her preferred hues. To achieve this mutilation of history, Indian content creators have produced a highly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate account of so-called Operation Sindoor, packaged as a documentary featuring senior political and military leadership of India.,” the statement said.
The ISPR described the documentary as simultaneously tragic and comical because of what it termed its lack of balance and seriousness. According to the statement, selectively edited interviews, emotionally charged narration and Bollywood-style cinematic recreations had been employed to distort known facts and present a different version of the military outcome.
The statement added that the documentary was also undermined by inconsistencies within its own narrative, suggesting an effort to construct a version of events that would be more acceptable to the Indian domestic audience.
“The documentary attempts to establish a deliberate linkage between an address by the Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff on 16 April 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of 22 April 2025, conjuring a conspiracy theory out of nothing. More significantly, 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 so called Operation Sindoor as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam. If the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July, India must explain, who it claims to have punished on 7 May 2025,” the statement further said.
ISPR also rejected the documentary’s assertion of “100 percent mission success”, saying the claim did not correspond with the operational record of the conflict. It said Pakistan’s Armed Forces had resisted Indian aggression during Marka-e-Haq and brought down eight Indian military aircraft.
“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,” the statement said.
The military’s media wing said that the documentary itself contained details that weakened its portrayal of an overwhelming Indian victory.
The ISPR statement added that Indian military officials acknowledged significant Pakistani missile, drone and air operations, continued fighting along the Line of Control (LoC) and the deployment of Indian air-defence systems.
These admissions, it said, were inconsistent with the repeated depiction of Pakistan as having suffered a decisive defeat.
The statement also questioned India’s presentation of how the hostilities came to an end. It noted that the documentary itself acknowledged that military action stopped following communication between the Directors General of Military Operations of both countries and an agreement to halt hostilities.
ISPR said this account contradicted any attempt to portray Operation Sindoor as a unilateral Indian victory, adding that a ceasefire facilitated by the United States could not later be presented as proof of unconditional military success.
The statement said that the documentary further offered conflicting explanations regarding the escalation of the conflict. While it highlighted surprise attacks, precision strikes, deep operations and escalation dominance, it simultaneously claimed that India had intentionally restricted the scope of the confrontation and offered Pakistan an “exit window”.
The statement said these contradictory positions demonstrated that the documentary was designed primarily as a domestic political narrative rather than an impartial assessment of military events.
The ISPR maintained that India had not revealed the actual facts but had instead assembled what it called a propaganda production intended to portray a military setback as an achievement.
It said no amount of cinematic presentation could alter the sequence of events, remove evidence of aircraft losses, hide military casualties, rewrite the engagements that occurred or transform what Pakistan described as a battlefield defeat into a victory claimed through narrative-building.
“Pakistan has no need to manufacture a narrative around Marka-e-Haq. The operational record, battlefield evidence, diplomatic exchanges and India’s own subsequent statements speak for themselves and are widely acknowledged by international community,” the ISPR said.