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  The Second Pilot A media war of sorts, mostly involving keyboard warriors, is going on since 27 th February 2019 when, in retaliation to an IAF foray across the LoC a night earlier, PAF launched an attack against six Indian military targets in  Indian  Held Kashmir. Pakistan claims   to have   downed two Indian aircraft that day, a MiG21 Bis piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan, and an SU30 MKI. Whereas the wreckage of MiG21 fell inside Pakistani territory and the pilot was apprehended, the SU30 and its pilot(s) remain elusive. In their counterclaim, IAF insists that Abhinandan, before getting shot down, had locked his air-to-air missile on a PAF F-16 and shot it down. This was the F-16, they claim, whose wreckage had also fallen inside Pakistani territory. The F-16 pilot, they speculate, might have been mistaken for an Indian pilot and smothered by the locals. This, they contend, explains the mystery of the seco...

  India’s Confused   Narrative The transcript of Shekhar Gupta’s video talk: We discover that the story we thought now had ended and was behind us had once again appeared on our headlines, and that is the story about Balakot and what happened the day after in the Rajauri, Mendhar, Nowshera area – the air skirmish which now is beginning to look more and more like a melee with lots of aircraft. This has happened because a fairly well-known , reputed Pentagon journalist –Lara Seligman, has written a source-based article for Foreign Policy magazine. She is a reputed journalist who covers Pentagon for a long time and has good contacts. Foreign Policy is a reputed magazine, which is edited by an Indian now – Abhi Agarwal. She said her sources have told her that Pakistanis invited American diplomats to inspect all their F-16s and the Americans have counted and confirmed that all Pakistani F-16s are on the ground. On...