F-16 planes flying since 10:20 PM over Islamabad, confirms senior Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir

[Muhammad Omar]

all highways have been upgraded.

Congrats bro.. happy..

Yeh Lahore ka Ring Road hai bhai is pe bhi hum Plane land kr skte hain...

 

[saiyan0321]

What the hell?!!! This C grade beggar went to indian media and we had an exercise like this five years ago as well. The exercise was announced before URI. Good lord you can find threads here and statements of posters including myself who saw barriers being removed along the motorway.

What rubbish yar?

His statement "jang nahi honi chahaye aur exercise nahi honi chahiye" ... Tumhara baap akay laray ga!!! Dimagh kharab tu nahi. Ullu ke pathay preparation naam ke chez honi bhi hain ya nahi!!!

Then traitors like you blame army for lack of preparation. Seriously this can't be tolerated. He contacts Indian media when the two nations are so tense and he is saying the army is trying to scare the people. The malice and spite in his voice pissed me off the most and I could smell the stink of cowardice from him.

What ridiculous rubbish!!

 

[Great Janjua]

I strongly urge you to land, exactly on that bridge..........

We dont listen to low life's sorry mate

 

[Sugarcane]

PAF should fly F16 close to his home, he will die of heart attack If not than they should fire roshani ka gola on his back

 

[sady]

I was discussing with a friend 6 month ago that escalation is imminent with India probably by December we will see something.

India has advantageous positions in Kashmir. Higher peeks. Artillery can damage forward post so we must re adjust the border posts, there is no point manning a post sandwiched between two indian peaks. Pakistan will have to improvise plus good directed fire.

If India opts to create full fledge war, it may well be ready to sacrifice a chunk of its strike corps. It may well be the objective to create enough opposition to Pakistani nukes post tactical weapons use. I expect a very hostile reception of tactical nuclear use by the world in any situation. This is a grave miscalculation on India side

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

That was due to the same exercise .

 

[JOEY TRIBIANI]

They'll probably fall of the skies due to lack of spares, maintenance and training. Plus potholed Highways would've damaged the landing wheels.

They arnt mig-21 or su-30 ( with indian made parts ) .

 

[Viper0011.]

Jahil pure Jahil Admi someone kill him

F-16 planes flying since 10:20 PM over Islamabad, confirms senior Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir

Guys, this was when the PAF officially went to their Pakistani version of the DEFCON-2 (Defense Condition Readiness - 2), which means the Conventional War is imminent. These flights were sent to Kashmir border for interception of incoming SU-30's and Jaguar which have been flying around the border for the past 6 hours, along with heavy artillery fire across LOC. I though I reported this earlier.

 

[S.U.R.B.]

Creating a mountain out of a molehill.
Typical response, as was expected from a media personnel.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

I strongly urge you to land, exactly on that bridge..........

Please land Su-30 MKI at the loop of Yamuna Expressway first... Strongly urge you tooo

 

[JonAsad]

it eej true

You gona land flying scooties here? -

 

[GDP Adil Khan Niazi]

Jahil pure Jahil Admi someone kill him

F-16 planes flying since 10:20 PM over Islamabad, confirms senior Pakistan journalist Hamid Mir

Pakistan and Pakistani media is ashamed of you hamid mir, kiya bakwas kar raha hai yeh banda literally he is also one of the raw agent, tum apnay apko Pakistani kehtay ho? sharam anii chahiye tumhen . I don't know tumny ghar se F-16 urtay huye dekhay and tumhen raat k iss andheray mein kese itna yaqeen k wo kashmir ki taraf gaye hain beghairtii ki bhe had hotii hai, kese bach gaye ho zindah bhaii tum? Pakistan per aur Pakistan k media per tum kisi bojh se kam nae ho bhartiii raw agent na ho tu.

 

[GuardianRED]

‘Exercise’ fuels Indo-Pak escalation fears, drives stocks down
BAQIR SAJJAD SYED | ASIF CHAUDHRY — UPDATED ABOUT 18 HOURS AGO
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Despite official insistence that the activities had been planned in advance, Wednesday’s closure of airspace over the country’s northern areas and flights by Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter planes participating in exercises fuelled rumours that the country’s armed forces were preparing for a possible Indian attack, driving the stock market down.

The exercises, coming at a time when tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours are running high following a terrorist attack on a military camp in India-held Kashmir, drove speculation on social and mainstream media.

Despite the confusion, Inter-Services Public Relations and the PAF’s media directorate chose to keep mum and the official silence only fuelled rumour mills.

Talking to Dawn, a senior military official rejected the reports about any change in the alert level over the past few days. However, he noted that “extreme vigilance” was being exercised in view of the current threats from India. It is expected that official details about the exercises will be released in the coming days.

But following official announcements regarding the closure of airspace over the northern areas and the M1 and M2 motorways, even private TV channels began airing reports hinting at the possibility that these measures were being taken in response to the potential threat of surgical strikes by India, as possible retaliation for the Uri camp attack that left 18 soldiers dead.

Airspace, motorway closure for PAF’s ‘Highmark’ drives speculation on social, mainstream media
Talking about the fighter planes landing on the motorway, the military official said this was part of a routine training exercise, ‘Highmark’. Usually held every five years, this exercise is one of the largest undertakings by the PAF and requires months of advance planning.

Due to the closure of airspace, PIA flights from Islamabad to Gilgit and Skardu had also been cancelled. A top PIA official told Dawn that a ‘Notice to Airmen’ (NOTAMS) had been issued three days ago, informing about the airspace closure at different times on Sept 21, 22 and 24 due to the exercise.

The closure of the M1 and M2 motorways at multiple points — between Kala Shah Kaku and Sheikhupura/Gujranwala on the M2 and near Peshawar-Nowshera — was announced by National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) through a press release issued a day earlier, but the reason for the close was attributed to “construction work”.

Falling stocks
The over-flights by jets participating in the PAF drills also fuelled speculation that caused a sharp decline in the stock market, with the KSE-100 benchmark index dropping a massive 569 points to close at 39,771 points.

As small investors ran for cover, the market fell by 1.41pc, wiping out gains netted in the month of September. Banks, companies and mutual funds remained stable, but panic selling was triggered by individual small investors, who were dabbling in “penny stocks” that usually generated the biggest volumes in the market.

Former Karachi Stock Exchange chairman Arif Habib blamed the tumbling stocks on the hype created by the electronic media about tensions between Pakistan and India, which gave the impression that a confrontation was imminent.

But Mr Habib also pointed out that the market had been on a long bullish run, and that with the KSE-100 index crossing the 40,000-point level, a correction was due.

Border tensions
Certain media outlets also broadcast reports claiming that Indian troops had been moved to forward locations.

Ever since India adopted the cold-start doctrine, troops that used to be stationed 800-1,000km from the LoC and Working Boundary have now moved to a proximity of around 200-250km. According to a defence analyst, this implied that India’s war-time troop locations from 2005-06 were now their regular deployment zones.

“No further movement has been observed,” a military official disclosed, adding that Indian troops had already been in a state of mobilisation.

Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif, chairing a corps commanders meeting earlier this week, had expressed satisfaction over the military’s “operational preparedness” and vowed to thwart all sinister designs against the country’s sovereignty and integrity.

Dilawar Hussain in Karachi also contributed to this report.

Published in Dawn September 22nd, 2016

https://www.dawn.com/news/1285317/exercise-fuels-indo-pak-escalation-fears-drives-stocks-down

Your Armed Force PR should have informed all media outlets, as u say it misinformed journo, it is having an unfortunate affect

 

[JonAsad]

This guy Hamid is shit scared of his own army-
What the hell is flying golays?
He being a journalist should know that there is an exercise going on -
He is talking like he just woke up after hibernation -

 

[Super Falcon]

PAF ready