Information Minister: Pakistan to display downed Indian drones as "war trophies"

Pakistan’s Information Minister, Ataullah Tarar, has described the Indian drones shot down by the country’s armed forces as “war trophies” that will be preserved in museums as symbols of military success.

“We will show them to our children and tell them that when India failed with its jets, it used drones,” Caliber.Az quotes Tarar as saying via foreign media. 

Speaking on the floor of the National Assembly, he further claimed that India had sustained significant losses along the Line of Control (LoC), calling it a major milestone for Pakistan in conventional warfare. “You will find very few examples of this in the world,” he said.

“This is what you call a befitting response,” Tarar asserted.

To recall, Pakistan’s military claims it has shot down 25 Indian drones over key cities including Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Karachi, labelling the incursions as “naked aggression” amid a sharp escalation in hostilities with India. The army reported that four soldiers were injured in the drone strikes, which it says targeted sensitive installations.

The drone incidents follow a series of Indian air and missile strikes this week that New Delhi says targeted militant infrastructure in Pakistan, allegedly linked to groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Islamabad denies harbouring militants and said the Indian attacks killed 31 civilians.

By Aghakazim Guliyev