The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday rejected India’s depiction of last year’s Operation Sindoor as a military success, alleging Delhi had used an overly theatrical “documentary” to rewrite the outcome of the engagement and distort the reality of its misadventure.
In a statement, the military’s media wing said India had refused to face the “harsh reality” of its defeat over a year after Marka-e-Haq and had instead sought to “color history in her preferred hues.”
Indian content creators, it said, had produced a “highly dramatized, colored and factually inaccurate account” of so-called Operation Sindoor, packaged as a documentary featuring senior political and military leadership.
“For its lack of nuance and seriousness, the documentary can be characterized as a tragedy and a comedy at the same time,” it said, adding selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic Bollywood-style reconstruction had been used to alter established facts and rewrite the operational outcome.
The film’s account, said ISPR, contained “fundamental contradictions,” exposing a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events. It said the “documentary” had attempted to link an address of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir from April 16, 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of April 22, 2025, “conjuring a conspiracy theory out of nothing.”
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 the operation as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam, noted ISPR. “If the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on July 28, India must explain who it claims to have punished on May 7, 2025,” read the statement.
The claim of “100% mission success” was equally detached from the operational record, said the military’s media wing, adding Pakistan’s armed forces had successfully thwarted Indian aggression and shot down eight military aircraft during Marka-e-Haq. It noted Pakistan had 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 the country.
The so-called documentary, said ISPR, further undermined its claim of clear Indian dominance, with Delhi’s military leadership acknowledging extensive Pakistani missile, drone and air activity, sustained engagements along the Line of Control and the activation of Indian air-defense systems. “Such admissions are difficult to reconcile with its repeated portrayal of Pakistan being decisively defeated,” said ISPR.
The documentary’s account of the cessation of hostilities was no less revealing, said ISPR, claiming its own narration confirmed that hostilities ended through communication between the two DGMOs and an agreed cessation of military action. “This alone contradicts the attempt to portray Operation Sindoor as a unilateral Indian military triumph,” it said. “A cessation of hostilities, facilitated by the U.S., cannot subsequently be repurposed as evidence of unconditional victory,” it added.
The documentary also contradicts itself on escalation dynamics, repeatedly emphasizing surprise, precision, deep strikes and escalation dominance while simultaneously claiming that India deliberately limited the conflict and provided Pakistan an “exit window,” said the military’s media wing. “These competing claims expose the production as a carefully constructed domestic narrative rather than an objective military account,” it said. “India has not declassified the truth. It has cobbled together a propaganda video to project a military blunder as a successful endeavor,” it added.
The ISPR said no amount of cinematic reconstruction could change the chronology, erase aircraft losses, conceal military casualties, alter the military engagements that took place or convert a battlefield defeat into a self-proclaimed victory. “Pakistan has no need to manufacture a narrative around Marka-e-Haq,” it stressed, adding the operational record, battlefield evidence, diplomatic exchanges and India’s own subsequent statements speak for themselves and are widely acknowledged by the international community.
The military’s media wing reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to regional peace and stability, while saying the armed forces remained fully prepared and capable of defending Pakistan’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests. “Any future military misadventure will be met with a firm, decisive and disproportionate response,” it warned, adding no amount of “cinematic perjury” would be able to provide India with any face-saving.
Pakistan had India engaged in a four-day conflict in May 2025 after India carried out strikes inside Pakistan on May 7 in response to a deadly attack on tourists in Pahalgam a month earlier.