New Delhi:
Noreen Niazi, the sister of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, has said the Pakistani military has fabricated a “victory story” around India’s Operation Sindoor to cover up failures on the battlefield.
In a scathing interview, Niazi said the four-day conflict did not unfold as Pakistani generals and leadership had portrayed it to the public. She said India’s Operation Sindoor was a huge success and the Pakistan Army was trying to hide its defeat.
These remarks alarmed the Pakistani establishment. Hours later, Niazi was summoned by the country’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) over the alleged spread of “false, offensive and inflammatory” content on social media targeting military and government agencies.
“You have been found to have been spreading false, offensive and inflammatory content on social media to defame government institutions and spread fake stories,” the notice said.
Niazi made two loud statements without providing evidence. First, she argued that India deliberately refrained from further escalation due to a “tacit understanding” associated with Israel.
She said the episode was aimed at facilitating Islamabad’s entry into the Abraham Accords as Pakistan moves toward recognizing Israel.
Pakistan is among several countries that do not recognize Israel as a state and do not have diplomatic relations with it. The Abraham Accords are a series of agreements brokered by the United States in 2020 that established diplomatic, economic and security ties between Israel and several Arab countries, including the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
Secondly, she said the military intervention, which the Pakistani establishment called Maarka-e-Haq, was stopped after US President Donald Trump personally intervened to provide the Pakistani leadership with a face-saving exit.
Leaders of the ruling PML-N government strongly condemned her remarks, saying they undermined Pakistan’s interests.