Overview
- Photos of a menu listing items such as Rawalpindi chicken tikka and Balakot tiramisu spread widely online after retired officers and politicians shared them.
- Multiple outlets said they could not verify the image, and a journalist reported it was an internal unit menu rather than part of the IAF chief’s official event.
- An IAF spokesperson declined comment, while later reporting cited unnamed officials attributing the menu to the Adampur airbase as a local initiative.
- The menu’s city names referenced Indian strikes in Operation Sindoor this May and the 2019 Balakot operation, prompting both applause and criticism over tone and professionalism.
- At the anniversary, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh praised Operation Sindoor as a professionally successful use of air power, reiterating claims about Pakistani losses that Islamabad disputes.