According to a Reuters news report carried by this newspaper yesterday, “the Pakistan Navy (PN) expects its first Chinese-designed submarine to enter active service next year, the country’s top admiral told Chinese state media, bolstering Beijing’s bid to counter regional rival India and project power toward the Middle East”.
The news agency has also said, among other things, that the update on the Chinese submarine deal follows Pakistan’s air force using Chinese-made J-10 fighter jets in May to shoot down “an Indian Air Force Rafale aircraft”, made by France.
Be that as it may, in total, Pakistan Air Force shot down three Rafale jets in addition to three other warplanes of the Indian Air Force. In this regard, Pakistan has already produced incriminating evidence to substantiate its claim about the Indian warplanes that were downed by its air force in the four-day conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbors in May this year.
The whole world buys Pakistan’s narrative because it knows too well that Pakistan over-performed while India under-performed in the May confrontation, and Islamabad was able to do much better than New Delhi mainly because of its war-hardened highly professional and skilled air force.
Needless to say, India has certainly realized that it cannot defeat Pakistan in a conventional war, particularly in an air-to-air combat. In my view, India also knows too well that larger the conflict, the more overwhelming is the prospect of humiliation.
Nasrin Hayat Khan (Karachi)
Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
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