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New Delhi: The two interviews by Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan in Singapore, where he accepted the loss of an unspecified number of fighter jets by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the first night of Operation Sindoor, has once again raised questions about the use of IAF against Pakistani targets.

This issue had raised its head even in 1999, during the Kargil War, when the Indian armed forces evicted Pakistani intruders who had crossed the Line of Control and occupied Indian territory.

Delivering the Air Chief Marshal L.M. Katre Memorial Lecture on September 9, 2017 at Bangalore, Air Chief Marshal B.S. Dhanoa, then Chief of the Air Staff, had mentioned that in “a cabinet level meeting on May 18, the then foreign minister Jaswant Singh was instrumental in denying........

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