"Then Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor said all four “missile seeker heads” were recovered intact from the wreckage of the Indian pilot’s MiG-21 fighter jet, implying that they were never fired.
Foreign Policy magazine interviewed two US defence officials with “knowledge of the count” of Pakistan’s F-16 jets and both confirmed that all the F-16s were “present and accounted for”.
In a statement issued a day after Abhinandan was given the Vir Chakra medal by then-Indian president Ram Nath Kovind, the Foreign Office said the move was done to “hide [India’s] embarrassment”."
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