Can you cite the bold? I am not going with the Indian media inferences and attributed stories being bandied upon.
Because, as far as I am aware, your indication that the downed Mig-21 Bison was on a CAP, is incorrect. It was on ORP-1. The only CAP was being flown by Su-30 MKI further South of the concerned AFB.
For the video you have posted, would you agree that only external fuel tank is being loaded? If you do, then please take a look as under:
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You will see one external fuel tank.
I think that can be correlated with the picture above.
As above. One does not need EFT on multiple pylons for intercept.
For the simple reasons of ROE. India did not declare a war on Pakistan. Shooting down a PAF fighter in Pakistani airspace would have done just that - painted India as an aggressor.
That is the rationale. Same as why PAF struck targets across LC and not IB, which GoP, for all practical reasons could have justified on the logic it put forth - of responding to Indian aggression.
Can you show me the said place next to Budgam.
Because:
It has been recently decided that the same has to be pushed as having happened. Just like the Brahmos.
Yet the Indian strike divisions are sitting in their peacetime locations