Earlier, during a media briefing by officials from the Joint Forces, Air Vice Marshall RGK Kapoor busted several false claims made by the Pakistan government.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the propaganda wing of the Pakistan armed forces, had issued a statement claiming that the country had shot down two fighters of the IAF and arrested a pilot flying one of these jets.
Though Pakistan has been in a constant denial mode, on conditions of anonymity, officials have confirmed that there were clear Pakistani footprints in the Pulwama attack
Pakistan's air chief marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan reportedly visited the forward airforce bases and interacted with the combat crew. He said, "We are a peace-loving nation but if war is imposed on us we will defend the aerial frontiers of our motherland at every cost."