Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry questioned India’s allegations against Pakistan, terming it a “phantom defence that they have mounted”.

“The fascination that you have with phantom strikes, which we saw in 2016 when Uri was attacked,” he said.

“After that, there was a phantom strike. On ground, nothing happened, but a strike was claimed,” he said.

“The story that you are listening to today, we can very conveniently call it a phantom defence that they have mounted,” he said.

“That was a phantom strike, now they are reversing it that we have defended so well,” he said.

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