Did Pakistan shoot five Indian fighter planes? What we know India Pakistan news tensions

Four days after the arrival of India and Pakistan cease-fire After a rapid escalation in a military conflict between them, the main differences between the battlefield demands remain without a solution.

Among them is Pakistan that it had shot down five Indian fighter planes on May 7, the first day of the fighting, in response to Indian attacks on its soil.

As a battle of accounts, it takes the actual fighting, the island evaluates what we know about this claim, and why, if it is true.

What happened?

Tensions between India and Pakistan broke out to a military confrontation on May 7 after India bombed nine sites across six cities in Pakistan and Kashmir, which is run by Pakistan.

India said it had hit what was called “terrorist infrastructure” in response to Death killing April 22 Tourists by the suspected rebels in Kashmir run by India.

On April 22, gunmen opened fire on 25 male tourists and local dowry passengers in PAAALGAM, which led to anger and calls for revenge in India. New Delhi blamed Pakistan for supporting the fighters responsible for the attack, a charge of denial of Islamabad.

Pakistan said that on May 7, Indian forces hit two cities in Kashmir, which is run by Pakistan and four locations in the largest province in the country, Punjab. She said that civilians were killed in the attacks. India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singhi refused Pakistani claims, repeating that the Indian forces “only struck those who harmed the innocent.”

Over the next four days, the nuclear armed neighbors were working in air strikes for each other on the air boats of each other, while unleashing drones in each other’s regions.

Amid fears of nuclear exchange, senior US officials made calls to Indian and Pakistani officials to end the conflict.

On May 10, US President Donald Trump announced that Washington has successfully mediated the ceasefire between nuclear armed neighbors. Despite the initial accusations of violations by the two sides, the ceasefire has continued so far.

Pakistan mentioned on Tuesday Indian strikes have killed at least 51 people, including 11 soldiers Many children died, while India said at least five military personnel and 16 civilians.

What did Pakistan claim?

Speaking to the island shortly after the May 7 attacks, the Pakistani Information Minister Ata Allah Tarar said that Islamabad, a profit, shot down five Indian aircraft, drone and many quadkops.

Later in the day, Pakistani military spokesman, Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said that warplanes have all landed inside Indian lands, and aircraft from either sides crossed the other lands during the attacks – India’s confirmation was loaned.

“India or Pakistan had no need to send its private aircraft from their national airspace,” said Michael Clark, a British defense analyst, to the British defense analyst for the British defense analyst.

“All confrontation weapons had long domains enough to reach their clear targets while flying in their airspace,” added Clark, a visiting professor in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London.

On Friday, the Marshal Aurangzeb, Ahmed Pakistani, claimed that among the five aircraft that were dropped were three of Rafales, Mig-29 and SU-30, as electronic signatures provide the plane, in addition to the microscopic sites in which the aircraft was invented.

Ahmed, who is also the deputy chief of operations, told reporters that the battle between Pakistani and Indian planes lasted for a little more than an hour.

He stated that the confrontation appeared at least 60 Indian aircraft, including 14 French Rafalees of Made, while Pakistan has published 42 “high-tech plane”, including the American F-16, the Chinese JF-17S and J-10S.

What was India’s response?

After the Global Times, which Pakistan, wrote that Pakistan had shot down the Indian fighter planes, the Indian embassy in China described the report as “misleading information”.

However, after that, New Delhi did not officially confirm or rejected reports.

When asked specifically if Pakistan had managed from the bottom of the Indian aircraft, the Ak Bharti Air Operations Director General avoided a direct answer.

“We are in a combat scenario and the losses are part of it,” he said. “As for more details, at this time I do not want to comment on this because we are still fighting and we benefit from the opponent. All our pilots return home.”

What do we know?

In addition to the official accounts, local and international media reported various publications of Pakistan’s claims to shoot down aircraft.

According to the Indian security sources that spoke to the island, three fighter planes crashed inside the Indian -controlled lands.

They did not confirm any country to which warplanes belong. However, with the absence of any of the two sides that Pakistani aircraft crossed the Indian Indian field, any debris is likely to come in Indian lands from an Indian plane.

Reuters news agency, citing four government sources in Kashmir, which relies on Indian Kashmir, said that three combat aircraft were crashed in the area. Reports in CNN said at least two aircraft crashed, while a French source told the American port that at least one Rafale plane had been shot down.

The photos taken by journalists at the AP news agency showed a plane wreckage in the Polama area of ​​Kashmir, which relies on Indian.

Will both sides agree on what happened?

Defense analyst Clark said if India has already lost Rafale, this will certainly be “embarrassing.”

He added: “If it falls inside the Indian lands, which must be so if one is destroyed, India will only want to keep it as a rumor for as long as possible.”

India said that “losses” are inevitable, and that may be the closest that can be recognized by the loss of a specific plane for a while. “