Pakistan’s military media wing has strongly dismissed India’s latest documentary on Operation Sindoor, calling it a highly dramatised and factually inaccurate attempt to rewrite history. In a detailed statement issued on Monday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said India still refuses to accept the harsh reality of its failed venture more than a year after Marka-e-Haq.
According to ISPR, Indian content creators produced a coloured and theatrical account packaged as a documentary featuring senior political and military leaders. The military’s media wing described the production as both a tragedy and a comedy because of its complete lack of nuance, seriousness and factual accuracy. Selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and Bollywood-style cinematic reconstruction were used to alter established facts and change the operational outcome, ISPR stated.
The documentary tries to link Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff’s address on 16 April 2025 with the Pahalgam incident of 22 April 2025, creating a conspiracy theory out of thin air. India later claimed the three alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July 2025, yet the film presents Operation Sindoor as the direct punishment for that attack. ISPR asked a simple question: if the perpetrators were killed in July, who exactly did India claim to have punished on 7 May 2025?
ISPR also rejected the claim of 100 percent mission success. During the engagement, Pakistan’s Armed Forces successfully thwarted Indian aggression and shot down eight military aircraft. Pakistan later launched Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, striking 26 military targets with precision rockets, missiles, drones and artillery.
The documentary itself undermines its own claims by admitting extensive Pakistani missile, drone and air activity, sustained fighting along the Line of Control and the activation of Indian air-defence systems. Such admissions cannot be reconciled with the repeated portrayal of a decisive Pakistani defeat.
ISPR noted that hostilities ended through communication between the two Directors General of Military Operations and an agreed cessation of military action facilitated by the United States. This fact alone contradicts any attempt to present Operation Sindoor as a unilateral Indian triumph.
No amount of cinematic reconstruction can erase aircraft losses, conceal casualties or convert a battlefield setback into a self-proclaimed victory, the statement concluded. Pakistan has no need to manufacture narratives. The operational record, battlefield evidence and diplomatic exchanges already speak clearly. Any future misadventure will be met with a firm and decisive response.
