Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that Pakistan was “preparing for the future war” as the country marked the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq, while asserting that the country had not underestimated New Delhi but “placed them [India] where they are.”
ISPR DG made the remarks while addressing a press conference along with Rear Admiral Shifaat Ali Khan and Air Vice Marshal Tariq Ghazi.
Marka-e-Haq (battle of truth) refers to the 19-day military conflict with India, spanning April 22 to May 10, 2025.
On May 6-7 last year, India launched an unprovoked attack on Pakistan on May 6, following an attack on tourists in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam town.
Pakistan, during the 87-hour conflict, downed eight Indian fighter jets, including French-made Rafale, and dozens of drones. The war between the two nuclear-armed nations ended on May 10 with a ceasefire agreement brokered by the US.
The more than 80-hour war eventually stopped on May 10 after intervention from the United States, which saw multiple Indian jets and drones being downed, and bolstering Pakistan’s image as a “net security stabiliser”.
“We welcome you to ISPR on this happy day,” Lt Gen Chaudhry said at the outset of the press conference.
He noted that Pakistan’s military had defeated an enemy “five times larger than itself,” and further described India as a “terrorist state”.
“Today, we are not going to dwell a lot on what happened … We are going to spend more time from May 2025 to May 2026,” he said, adding that they would put in front of the nation “10 strategic consequences” of the conflict.
‘Strategic consequences’
First of the strategic consequences is, the ISPR DG said, the Indian narrative of painting Pakistan as a source of terrorism stood buried forever.
“International community, as a consequence of Marka-e-Haq, came to know and now fully understand that Pakistan, as alleged by Indians over a period of time, is not a perpetrator but a victim of Indian sponsored terrorism,” he noted.
Chaudhry noted that India attempted to portray, without evidence, that Pakistan had perpetrated terrorism in India. “It had been one year since the Pahalgam incident, yet the questions that Pakistan had asked remain unanswered,” he said.
“How come an FIR was registered within 15 minutes of the incident… Where is the evidence? The whole world, including sensible Indians, is asking who is behind the attack. Nobody buys this… You are the biggest terrorist. Nobody listens to them, nobody believes them,” he added.
