Thank you for raising some very important and interesting points. There is a lot of subtle messaging which is lost in a superficial overview.
Imran Khan only gave approval for attacks on Indian soil, away from any civilian or military targets. Per Indian allegations, after the attacks had been launched, PAF then provoked them by flying jets into their airspace. When Indian jets followed, they found themselves in a kill-box. PAF lured them into a kill-zone and dispatched two of their jets.
And so here is the reality of the situation. Imran Khan and Bajwa couldn't defend two downed jets on the international geo-political level. How could they defend nine?
Does anyone on this forum realize what we did to assuage the Indian missile threat? We gave up Abhinandan as a gesture of kindness, allowed inhuman Indian bombing of Azad Kashmir and a border skirmish in the Sialkot sector, allowed Indian submarines to go away unharmed, then accepted in front of the whole world we have terrorists in the form of Maulana Masood Azhar and Hafiz Saeed, backed India for membership in Security Council, accepted and continue to accept unyielding pressure in FATF for being a source of terrorist financing when America has been the biggest financier of terrorists in Syria, Afghan is to source of all terrorism in the world and is still in the whitelist, and India has financed terrorism in Pakistan for two decades. Then we stuck to verbal castigations when India repealed Article 360. On top of this, we allowed further inhuman bombing in Kashmir to such an extent that Wajahat A Khan called out the criminal silence of our leaders and Abid Andaleeb made a video of the plight of Kashmiris and how they felt completely alienated.
And then I ask the question, was that weakness really worth it?
There will be some who will try their level best to de-link everything from Feb 27 2019. These people either don't understand warfare, or knowingly avoid the facts. When you win a war or a conflict, you achieve a perceptual superiority over your enemy. This is especially true for an aerial conflict. Modern wars are won and lost through air power. Having established air superiority over Indian airforce, Pakistan was in a state of established military ascendancy. This was the time to force Indian leadership to the table and negotiate a peace agreement, force them to back off from blackmail in FATF, and hold off from further involvement in Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Instead, Imran Khan is publicly known to apologize for Modi's behavior as an election rhetoric. The Prime Minister of the country excused the enemy's behavior, and to add insult to injury, fully backed the enemy's membership to the Security Council as a further peace gesture. I mean one has to be completely devoid of shame, self-respect, and national pride to not term this as treason of the worst kind.
The trouble is that our loyal Pakistanis don't have the grasp of international affairs, military strategy, and geo-politics. Thus, these gullible people are easy led by sweet promises by demagogues. We have no one but ourselves to blame for this. We as a nation have been unable to hold our own leaders accountable for their actions. Until this changes, nothing else will change.