India refusing to accept defeat in Marka-e-Haq, says ISPR

Must ReadPakistanIndia refusing to accept defeat in Marka-e-Haq, says ISPRBy Laiq Ur Rehman-Aug 18, 2026Add ARY News on GoogleAAResizeISLAMABAD, August 18: India is refusing to accept the bitter reality of its defeat in Marka-e-Haq and is attempting to portray its failed campaign as a success, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to the military media wing, more than a year after Marka-e-Haq, India refuses to face the harsh reality. Instead of conceding defeat in a failed venture, India has decided to colour history in her preferred hues. To achieve this mutilation of history, Indian content creators have produced a highly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate account of so-called Operation Sindoor, packaged as a documentary featuring senior political and military leadership of India. For its lack of nuance and seriousness, the documentary can be characterised as a tragedy and a comedy at the same time. Selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic Bollywood style reconstruction have been used to alter established facts and rewrite the operational outcome. Tellingly, the documentary’s account contains fundamental contradictions, exposing a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events. The documentary attempts to establish a deliberate linkage between an address by the Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff on 16 April 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of 22 April 2025, conjuring a conspiracy theory out of nothing. More significantly, India subsequently claimed that the three alleged perpetrators of Pahalgam were identified and eliminated on 28 July 2025, 82 days after so called Operation Sindoor. Yet the documentary presents so called Operation Sindoor as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam. If the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July, India must explain, who it claims to have punished on 7 May 2025. The claim of “100 percent mission success” is equally detached from operatio...