Indian “political constraints” are to be blamed for the loss of fighter jets during the air force’s operation in Pakistan, an Indian military attache to Indonesia has said, in remarks that have triggered a political row in the country.
In a seminar at an Indonesian university analysing the India-Pakistan conflict, Captain Shiv Kumar said the Indian government did not permit strikes on Pakistani military bases at the start of the hostilities between the two countries, claiming this allowed Islamabad to shoot down an unspecified number of fighter jets.
