{"id":208998,"date":"2026-08-27T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=208998"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:26:32","slug":"pakistan-rejects-former-indian-cdss-self-contradictory-claims-on-kirana-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/08\/27\/pakistan-rejects-former-indian-cdss-self-contradictory-claims-on-kirana-hills.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rejects former Indian CDS\u2019s \u2018self-contradictory\u2019 claims on Kirana hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Islamabad : Pakistan has rejected claims made by former Indian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan that an Indian Harop drone accidentally struck Kirana Hills near Sargodha during the May 2025 conflict after running critically low on fuel.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, addressing the weekly press briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi said, \u201cWe categorically reject the self-contradictory and retrospective claims made by the former Indian chief of defence staff regarding Kirana Hills.\u201d<\/p>\n

He asserted that during the conflict, \u201cPakistan\u2019s layered air defence network effectively thwarted India\u2019s military objectives, while Pakistan\u2019s subsequent response under Operation Bunyanum Marsoos demonstrated our ability to impose cost across the conflict spectrum\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo strategic asset or sensitive infrastructure was compromised in Pakistan. Attempts to retrospectively recast these events through selective narrative or dramatised production cannot alter the verifiable operational record of May 2025,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The FO spokesperson said that history is \u201cestablished by facts and evidence, not by Bollywood-style retrospective claims\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese post-facto punches, if I may call them, 16-18 months after the war would be better directed at their faces,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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