What happened
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday, 18 August 2026, that any future Indian military misadventure would be met with a firm, decisive and disproportionate response, and accused India of producing a dramatised and factually inaccurate documentary about the May 2025 conflict.
In a statement carried by the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan, the military’s media wing said the response would be one “after which no amount of cinematic perjury will be able to provide any face-saving to India.”
“Pakistan remains committed to regional peace and stability. At the same time, the Armed Forces of Pakistan remain fully prepared and capable of defending the country’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests,” ISPR said.
The documentary dispute
ISPR said that more than a year after Marka-e-Haq, India “refuses to face the harsh reality” and had “decided to colour history in her preferred hues”. It said Indian content creators had produced a “highly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate account” of what India calls Operation Sindoor, packaged as a documentary featuring senior Indian political and military leadership.
The statement said the documentary relied on selectively edited interviews, emotional narration and cinematic reconstruction, and contained fundamental contradictions that exposed “a belated attempt to manufacture a domestically palatable version of events”.
ISPR said the documentary attempted to establish a link between an address by Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff on 16 April 2025 and the Pahalgam incident of 22 April 2025, calling it a conspiracy theory “out of nothing”. It added that India had subsequently claimed the three alleged perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack were identified and eliminated on 28 July 2025, 82 days after Operation Sindoor, yet presented the operation as punishment for those responsible. “If the alleged perpetrators were eliminated on 28 July, India must explain, who it claims to have punished on 7 May 2025,” the statement said.
The operational record
ISPR rejected India’s claim of “100 percent mission success” as detached from the operational record. It said Pakistan’s armed forces had thwarted Indian aggression during Marka-e-Haq and shot down eight military aircraft, and that Pakistan subsequently conducted Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, employing Fatah precision-guided rockets and missiles, PAF precision munitions, long-range loitering munitions and precision artillery against 26 military targets, including facilities used to target Pakistani citizens and entities involved in fomenting terrorism against Pakistan.
The statement argued that the documentary itself undermined the claim of clear Indian dominance, noting that Indian military leadership had acknowledged extensive Pakistani missile, drone and air activity, sustained engagements along the Line of Control and the activation of Indian air-defence systems. It also said the documentary’s account of the cessation of hostilities confirmed that the fighting ended through communication between the two directors general of military operations and an agreed cessation of military action, which it said contradicted the portrayal of a unilateral Indian triumph.
“Pakistan has no need to manufacture a narrative around Marka-e-Haq. The operational record, battlefield evidence, diplomatic exchanges and India’s own subsequent statements speak for themselves and are widely acknowledged by international community,” ISPR said.
Why it matters
The statement is the latest public exchange in a continuing dispute over the 2025 conflict and how it is remembered, and it keeps military messaging at the centre of Pakistan-India tensions more than a year after the fighting. The claims in the ISPR statement were issued as assertions by Pakistan’s military media wing and were not independently verified in this report.
Sources & reporting notes
This is a summary of a published statement, not independent reporting. Details and quoted remarks are as carried by the cited source, which was reviewed on 18 August 2026.
- Associated Press of Pakistan — "Any future Indian misadventure to meet firm, decisive response: ISPR"18 August 2026 · The ISPR statement, its criticism of the Operation Sindoor documentary, the claims about Marka-e-Haq and Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, and the reference to the DGMO-level cessation of hostilities.
