Beijing: Senior Research Fellow at the Charhar Institute, Prof Cheng Xizhong has rubbished Indian Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh’s groundless claim that the Indian Air Force had shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one large aircraft during Operation Sindoor in early May.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Prof Cheng Xizhong in a statement said this claim lacks strong evidence and has been widely questioned by the international community, being considered groundless.
He believed that everything should be based on sufficient evidence. The Indian side, he added, has not presented any evidence, such as photos of the wreckage of the fighter jets, radar monitoring data, etc., while the Pakistani side had previously presented a large amount of relevant evidence of shooting down the Indian fighter jets.
Therefore, he said, the remarks by the Indian Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh are comical, implausible and unconvincing. We may call it “self-amusement”, he maintained.
He said there are also confirmations from world leaders, senior Indian politicians, and foreign intelligence assessments that India suffered heavy losses of multiple aircraft.
He said it is thus evident that no Pakistani fighter jet was hit or destroyed by the Indian side. On the contrary, he added, the Pakistani side shot down six Indian fighter jets and destroyed S-400 air defense positions, among other achievements, which is an indisputable fact.
