Pakistan military rebuts Operation Sindoor documentary

Pakistan's military issued a lengthy, late-night rebuttal to a new Indian documentary series about a 2025 military operation, calling the production a "highly dramatised, coloured and factually inaccurate account." The response from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces, came in the early hours of August 17, 2026, just two days after the documentary premiered.

The two-part series, "Declassified Operation Sindoor," aired on the Discovery Channel on August 15. It features interviews with senior Indian officials, including National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi, who were involved in planning and executing the operation. The documentary revisits India's military response to the Pahalgam terror attack of April 22, 2025, which killed 26 people. Operation Sindoor was launched on May 7, 2025, with Indian forces conducting strikes against what New Delhi described as terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

In its statement, the ISPR accused Indian content creators of producing a propaganda piece designed to rewrite history. "No amount of cinematic reconstruction can...