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And while your pilots may have been great ones (incidentally, you should find out, if you can, what Nosey Haidar really thought of one of his contemporaries that you have listed), you need to read Kaisar Tufail's account. The PAF had run out of spares by the time the fighting on the ground escalated. It was not for nothing that they abstained, they could not run a long campaign for any duration. Look up also the tempo and rate of sorties flown by both sides in each engagement, and you will get the grim picture that a PAF commander views every time there is such a difficult occasion. Check the numbers for yourself.
If you knew the topography, you would not say that. There was no possibility of Pakistan recapturing the pass. It was one of the points that the Indian Army bitterly resented, but the man who made the decision had died, the papers had been signed. There was nothing to be done. Pakistan might as well have kept the territory it took. You need to look it up. The PA might even have got it gratis.
