On the intervening night of May 7-8, Pakistan deployed a F-16 towards India. However, the fighter jet was shot down by New Delhi, sources were reported as telling NDTV. According to the sources, the F-16 took off from the Sargodha air base in Pakistan, a key air force station of the Pakistani Air Force. However, an Indian SAM (Surface-to-air missile) shot it down near the Sargodha air base.
Following this incident, Prakash Ambedkar, a veteran Indian politician and grandson of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, questioned the use of the F-16 by Pakistan, urging India’s prime minister and external affairs minister to take up the matter with Washington, as it violates the stipulations laid down. He wrote on X, “Pakistan and its evil designs should be exposed to the whole world!”
