ISLAMABAD: Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu radioed the pilots during the air operation against the Indian invasion and gave them the order, “Kill them, kill them, don’t let them enter even an inch into Pakistan.”
As they flew into battle in the wee hours of May 7, he was addressing pilots of the 15 Squadron, a force he had previously commanded himself.
As commanders witnessed Indian Rafale jets getting hit above Bithanda, the atmosphere within the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) extremely secret and secure command center drastically changed. Cheers of “Allahu Akbar” rippled across the room.
It was a turning point in a fast-intensifying conflict between two neighbors who had nuclear weapons.
after the terror incident in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir, on April 22.
