Pakistan’s Textbooks Twist 4-Day Clash With India Into ‘Victory’ Narrative, Erase Heavy Losses

Last Updated:September 24, 2025, 21:49 IST

Pakistan’s school textbooks claim victory over India in May 2025, despite evidence of Indian strikes and damaged airbases,.

Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File Image)

Months after the four-day conflict in May that saw Indian forces repel drone and missile strikes, Pakistan is embedding a warped version of events into school textbooks, painting itself as the victor of a war it failed to win.

According to the revised curriculum, the conflict began on May 6, 2025, when India allegedly launched an unprovoked attack on Pakistan after levelling “false accusations” about its role in a massacre in Kashmir’s Pahalgam. The facts tell a different story: 26 civilians were killed by Pakistan-backed militants, prompting India to launch Operation Sindoor the next day. Precision strikes were carried out against nine terror hideouts of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizbul Mujahideen in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, with New Delhi stressing that civilian structures were deliberately avoided.

Textbooks go on to claim that Pakistan’s forces responded responsibly, striking only Indian military posts. In reality, Islamabad escalated with drone and missile attacks on Amritsar, Jammu, Srinagar and more than two dozen other sites, many of them civilian. India retaliated by destroying Pakistan’s HQ-9 air defence system in Lahore and striking targets deep inside Sialkot and even Islamabad.

One of the boldest fabrications is the portrayal of Pakistan’s “Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos” as a devastating offensive that destroyed 26 Indian airbases. Open-source intelligence, satellite imagery and Indian defence briefings tell another tale: precision strikes by India crippled key Pakistani airbases at Murid, Nur Khan, Rafiqui, Sargodha, Chaklala and Rahim Yar Khan. The continued closure of the Rahim Yar Khan base underscores the damage, while images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi standing beside an intact MiG-29 and fully operational S-400 battery at Adampur exposed Pakistan’s claims as fiction.

Another invention is the narrative that India, after “heavy losses,” pleaded for peace, with Pakistan graciously agreeing only at the insistence of US President Donald Trump. In truth, India held firm, warning it would escalate further unless Pakistan ceased hostilities. The eventual ceasefire was worked out directly between the Indian and Pakistani DGMOs, with Washington playing no formal role despite Donald Trump’s claims of brokering peace.

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