Overview
- At government ceremonies in Islamabad, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar led a one-year commemoration of “Marka-e-Haq,” including a Lok Virsa event organized by the information and culture ministries with tributes and a candlelight vigil.
- Tarar said Pakistan won on military, diplomatic and narrative fronts and argued the campaign lifted the country’s global standing.
- He alleged India supports terrorism and framed Pakistan as a state that has suffered attacks and paid a high cost in the fight against militants.
- He cited downed Indian aircraft and a missile response that he said had strategic effects, with these battlefield claims not independently verified in the cited reports.
- He labeled the Pahalgam incident a false-flag operation and urged an independent international investigation into what happened there.