In a public admission, a top Pakistan Air Force official acknowledged the military’s role in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel. The statement came amid rising pressure over the recent Pahalgam terror attack, drawing a direct connection between the two incidents.
“We tried to tell them with our tactical brilliance in Pulwama,” said Air Vice Marshal Aurangzeb Ahmed, who heads the Pakistan Air Force’s public relations wing. He was speaking at a press conference alongside Director General ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry and a Navy spokesperson.
“If Pakistan’s airspace, land, waters, or its people are threatened, there can be no compromise. It cannot go unnoticed. We owe it to our nation,” Ahmed said. “The pride and trust the Pakistani people have in their armed forces is something we always uphold, at all costs. We tried to convey that through our tactical brilliance in Pulwama; now, we have demonstrated our operational progress and strategic acumen.”
This has come just a week after Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif admitted that Pakistan had been harbouring terrorists for over 3 decades. “We have been doing this dirty work for the United States for about three decades you know and the West including Britain,” Asif told Sky News in an interview. He was responding to a question on if Pakistan has a long history of supporting, training and funding terrorist organisations.
