RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army, while reacting to an Indian documentary depicting so-called victory in Operation Sindoor, maintained that no amount of cinematic reconstruction can change the chronology, erase aircraft losses, conceal military casualties, alter the military engagements that actually took place or convert a battlefield defeat into a self-proclaimed victory.
The military media wing on Monday observed that more than a year after Marka-e-Haq, India refuses to face the harsh reality and instead of conceding defeat in a failed venture, India has decided to colour history in its 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 Inter-Services Public Relations said.
Mocking preparation of the documentary, the ISPR statement observed that its lack of nuance and seriousness, the documentary could be characterised as a tragedy and a comedy at the same time.
It added that selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic Bollywood style reconstruction have been used to alter established facts and rewrite the operational outcome. “Tellingly, the documentary’s account contains fundamental contradictions, exposing a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events,” the statement added.
The military media wing went on to say that the documentary itself further undermines its claim of clear Indian dominance recalling that the 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. “Such admissions are difficult to reconcile with its repeated portrayal of Pakistan being decisively defeated,” the ISPR statement mentioned.
It says the documentary’s account of the cessation of hostilities is no less revealing. Its own narration confirms that hostilities ended through communication between the two DGMOs and an agreed cessation of military action.
“This alone contradicts the attempt to portray Op Sindoor as a unilateral Indian military triumph. A cessation of hostilities, facilitated by US, cannot subsequently be repurposed as evidence of unconditional victory,” the Pakistan Army said.
It says the documentary also contradicts itself on escalation dynamics as it repeatedly emphasises surprise, precision, deep strikes and escalation dominance, while simultaneously claiming that India deliberately limited the conflict and provided Pakistan an “exit window”.
“These competing claims expose the production as a carefully constructed domestic narrative rather than an objective military account, the statement said adding that India has not declassified the truth. It has cobbled together a propaganda video to project a military blunder as a successful endeavour.
On the other hand, the ISPR statement said that Pakistan has no need to manufacture a narrative around Marka-e-Haq as the operational record, battlefield evidence, diplomatic exchanges and India’s own subsequent statements speak for themselves and are widely acknowledged by international community.
The documentary also attempts to establish a deliberate linkage between an address by the Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff on April 16, 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of April 22, 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 July 28 2025, 82 days after so-called Operation Sindoor. Yet the documentary presents so-called Operation Sindoor as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam.
The ISPR statement also questioned that if the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on July 28, India must explain, who it claims to have punished on May 7, 2025. Moreover, the ISPR statement also noted that the claim of “100 per cent mission success” is equally detached from operational record.
Pakistan Army reminded the adversary that during Marka-e-Haq, Pakistan’s Armed Forces successfully thwarted Indian aggression and shot down 8 military aircraft. Pakistan subsequently conducted Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, employing Fatah precision-guided rockets and 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 ISPR statement also maintained that Pakistan remains committed to regional peace and stability and 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.
Pakistan Army made it clear that any future military misadventure will be met with a firm, decisive and disproportionate response, after which no amount of cinematic perjury will be able to provide any face-saving to India.
