A former Pakistani diplomat has admitted during a TV debate that it lost 300 people in Indian airstrikes in Balakot.
Zafar Halali, who has served Pakistan in various countries including Italy and Yemen, blurted out this while participating in a heated TV debate. This comes on back of Pakistani Army as well as Pakistan government’s repeated denial of any such strike by Indian Air Force. They used to claim that just birds were killed.
The undated video is going viral on social media. In the video, Zafar Halali can be seen getting furious and agitated over Pakistan’s feeble response to Indian airstrikes. He says that Pakistani Air Force should have targeted Indian military installation for this act of aggression by India.
Ever since, Indian Air Force neutralised terror launch pads operating from its soil in Balakot region, Pakistan has always lived in denial and consistently rejected reports of human casualty as well as structural damages in the area.
Meanwhile, many took to Twitter following the revelation put out by a TV channel.
A twitter used named Sanatani asked:
“@ArvindKejriwal @AamAadmiParty do you still need proof of #BalakotAirStrike?”
Another user, Modi Bharosa, said: “AAP and Congress always questioned the Indian Forces. Now, Pak diplomat has accepted that Indian Airforce had killed 300 Pakistanis in #BalakotAirStrike. Will they apologise?”
Following the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir in February 2019, the Indian Air Force had mounted an aerial strike at a terror training centre in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on February 26.
This was India’s second big cross border operation to dismantle the terror launch pads and eliminate terrorists operating from Pakistani soil. First was the surgical strike in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in 2016 days after terror attack at Uri base camp.
