ISPR rejects Op Sindoor documentary

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday rejected an Indian documentary on so-called Operation Sindoor, accusing Indian content creators of distorting history and presenting a "highly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate" account of the military operation.

In a statement, the military's media wing said that more than a year after "Marka-e-Haq", India had refused to face what it described as the reality of the conflict and instead sought to portray the outcome in a manner acceptable domestically.

The ISPR said the documentary featured senior Indian political and military leadership and relied on selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic, Bollywood-style reconstructions to alter established facts and rewrite the operational outcome.

"For its lack of nuance and seriousness, the documentary can be characterised as a tragedy and a comedy at the same time," the ISPR said.

It said the documentary's narrative contained "fundamental contradictions" that exposed what it called a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events.

The ISPR particularly rejected what it described as an attempt to establish a deliberate link between an address by Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir on April 16, 2025, and the Pahalgam incident of April 22, 2025. It said the documentary sought to create a conspiracy theory by linking the two events.

More significantly, the ISPR pointed to what it described as a contradiction in India's own account of the Pahalgam incident. It said India had subsequently claimed that the three alleged perpetrators of the incident were identified and eliminated on July 28, 2025, or 82 days after Operation Sindoor.

"Yet the documentary presents so-called Operation Sindoor as the punishment for those responsible for Pahalgam," the statement said, asking: "If the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July, India must explain, who it claims to have punished on 7 May 2025?"

The ISPR also rejected the documentary's claim of "100 percent mission success", saying the assertion was inconsistent with what it called the operational record of the conflict. It said during "Marka-e-Haq", Pakistan's armed forces thwarted Indian aggression and shot down eight military aircraft.