Retired Pakistani Air Marshal Masood Akhtar admitted on camera that Indian precision strikes under Operation Sindoor damaged a Pakistani AWACS aircraft at Bholari airbase. The strikes, a retaliation for the Pahalgam terror attack, targeted key military installations, contradicting Pakistan's attempts to downplay the extent of the damage. Indian Air Marshal AK Bharti confirmed that 11 Pakistani air bases were hit.
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