Overview

• Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan admitted that India lost fighter jets on May 7 due to tactical errors and said those mistakes were corrected within two days
• He dismissed Pakistan’s claim of downing six Indian warplanes as “absolutely incorrect” and stated the conflict never approached the nuclear threshold
• Chauhan highlighted that Indian forces carried out precision strikes up to 300 km inside Pakistan with metre-level accuracy
• Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the government of misleading the nation about Operation Sindoor and demanded a special session of Parliament along with an independent defence review
• US President Donald Trump’s claim to have brokered the ceasefire was rebuffed by New Delhi, which maintained the truce was agreed directly between India and Pakistan