Pakistan rejects India's account of May 2025 confrontation, asserts restraint and readiness to defend sovereignty

Overview: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar rejected India’s account of the May 2025 military confrontation, accusing New Delhi of spreading misinformation and AI-generated fake content. Speaking on December 27, he said Pakistan neither initiated nor sought a ceasefire and documented India’s strike on Nur Khan Air Base as a serious miscalculation met with a restrained but effective Pakistani response.

Key claims by Dar include:

• Pakistan intercepted 79 of 80 Indian drones.
• Shot down four Indian Rafale jets.
• Destroyed two S-400 systems.
• He claimedsaid these assertions were verified by international media using heat-signature analysis.

Disputed or unverified claims and positions:

• He dismissedrefuted Indian claims of downed Pakistani F-16s as unverified and called for independent verification of wreckage.
• Pakistan maintains the ceasefire was mutually agreed via military hotlines.
• Warns against Indian war hysteria and urges dialogue while reaffirming readiness to defend sovereignty.

Note: Independent verification of the above claims is pending; reference to the international media and heat-signature analysis has not been corroborated in public reporting.