After Indian military leadership warned Islamabad on the first anniversary of Op Sindoor that “no terror sanctuary across the border is beyond India’s reach”, Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir on Sunday called last year’s conflict with India a “battle between two ideologies”.Addressing a ceremony at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to mark the first anniversary of ‘Marka-e-Haq’, the name given by Islamabad to four-day conflict with India, Munir claimed that Pakistan’s strategy was “superior” to India’s during the conflict. “Marka-e-Haq was not merely a traditional war fought between two countries or militaries, but in reality, it was a decisive marka (battle) between two ideologies, in which, thanks to Allah, truth won and falsehood met with defeat,” he said. Despite losing several air bases and military aircraft, Pakistan still claims to have prevailed over India during the conflict. Meanwhile, in another tell-tale sign of army’s dominance over civilian leadership, Pakistani federal minister for energy Ali Pervaiz Malik, a close aide of premier Shehbaz Sharif, said, “As an ordinary worker of the team led by PM Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, I want to assure the public that as petroleum prices decline in the international market…” His remark drew ire on social media.
