It has been more than a year and three months since the military clash between India and Pakistan in May 2025, but the opinions of the two countries still differ on this clash of a few days.
Both sides claimed victory and said different things about the military losses suffered during the war.
The recently released Discovery Channel's documentary film 'Declassified: Operation Sindoor' has once again made this clash a topic of discussion.
In this film, India's National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and other senior military officers have made many claims of success against Pakistan.
On the other hand, the Public Relations Department (ISPR) of the Pakistani Army has rejected these claims and called them 'false, controversial and based on propaganda'.
What's in the documentary?
After the extremist attack on tourists in Pahalgam, the Indian Army carried out missile attacks on Pakistan and its administered Kashmir on the intervening night of May 6-7, 2025.
It was said to be a response to the killing of 26 tourists in Pahalgam area, whereas Pakistan has always denied allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam attacks.
India called its military action 'Operation Sindoor', while Pakistan called its counter-operation 'Operation Bunyan Al Marsoos'.
The introductory video of the documentary 'Declassified: Operation Sindoor' has been uploaded on the YouTube channels of Discovery Channel India and Discovery Plus India. It has been told that the entire documentary can be watched on the applications of these media platforms.
However, many users of X and other social media platforms have uploaded the documentary on their respective accounts.
In the documentary, the events from the beginning of the operation till the ceasefire have been told through interviews of military officers.
In this, Indian military officials claim that they attacked Pakistani military positions, air bases and command centers and caused huge damage, while Pakistan's retaliatory strikes either did not hit the target or were stopped and ended before reaching the target.
The documentary also claims that Pakistan wanted a ceasefire by the morning of May 10, 2025, and for this Pakistani Army Chief General Asim Munir contacted US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Marco Rubio spoke to Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar.
According to the claim, "Marco Rubio was told to ask the Pakistani Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) to speak to his Indian counterpart as he was the right person to talk to."
In his interview for the documentary, former Indian DGMO Lieutenant General Rajeev Ghai claims that the Pakistani DGMO approached him and demanded a ceasefire, saying: "You have fired so many BrahMos missiles at us, now you should be relieved. And why don't we stop it (the war)?"
Next is part of an interview with India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, in which he says that Pakistan "repeatedly requested us. They said enough is enough, you have caused a lot of damage, now cease fire and we agreed to this."
According to the information given at the end of the documentary, it has been produced by Sparkle Works Films for Warner Bros. Discovery.
What does Pakistani Army say?
The Pakistan Army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has refuted the claims made in the documentary, saying that "instead of accepting defeat in a failed operation, India has decided to rewrite history in its own colour."
A statement released on social media platform
According to ISPR, there are contradictions in the statements made in the documentary, which show that an attempt has been made to present a version of events that is 'acceptable' within India.
Pakistan Army's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, "Earlier India had claimed that the three alleged perpetrators of the Pahalgam attack had been identified and they were killed on July 28, 2025, 82 days after the so-called Operation Sindoor. Yet the documentary claims that this operation was launched 'as punishment' for the Pahalgam incident."
In a post on Twitter, ISPR questioned that "If the 'alleged perpetrators' of the Pahalgam attack were killed on July 28, then India will have to explain who was punished on May 7, 2025, as it claims."
ISPR has rejected India's claim of '100 percent success' in this mission.
According to ISPR's claim, the Pakistan Army retaliated by "attacking 26 military targets in India, including installations targeting Pakistani civilians, using long-range and precision guided weapons."
According to ISPR, through this documentary India has "tried to portray a military mistake as a success."
The ISPR says that there is 'no need to fabricate any story' about the Pakistani Army's actions against India and that 'Pakistan's Armed Forces are fully prepared and capable of protecting the country's sovereignty, territorial integrity and national interests.'
There has been no reaction from India yet on these claims of Pakistani Army.
What information came to light during the May 2025 clash?
In the documentary 'Declassified: Operation Sindoor', Indian officials say that when missile attacks were carried out in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on the night of 6-7 May, Pakistan initially retaliated across the Line of Control.
In this documentary film, former Indian Air Force Vice Chief Narmadeshwar Tiwari says: "Within the next 15 to 20 minutes, 40 to 50 aircraft from both sides were in the air."
Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, commander-in-chief of the South Western Air Command, says: "We were keeping a close watch in the air so that none of their aircraft could come to this side (of the border) or remain in their airspace and drop bombs on us."
The next sentence is again from Narmadeshwar Tiwari, "We had fired several surface-to-air missiles, which certainly caused some damage to the enemy."
According to Narmadeshwar Tiwari, "After about two hours, they (Pakistani aircraft) decided to go back."
The thing to note is that in the documentary, Narmadeshwar and Nagesh Kapoor have not said anything about the loss of Indian aircraft that night, whereas Pakistan had claimed on May 7 that it had shot down six Indian aircraft.
In June 2025, General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defense Staff of the Indian Armed Forces, told Bloomberg TV in an interview that "the important thing is not whether the jets were shot down or not, but why they were shot down."
BBC Verify verified three videos in May 2025 in which it was claimed that the debris shown was from a fighter jet used by the Indian Air Force.
This claim has also been made in the documentary and after the ceasefire, the Indian government had also said that on May 9, US Vice President JD Vance had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and told that Pakistan could launch a major attack in the next few hours.
According to the claim, "Prime Minister Modi had made it clear in his reply that if any such attack happens, we will give a befitting reply."
However, later US President Donald Trump claimed that he had stopped the war between India and Pakistan.
On this, the opposition parties of India had asked the question, who was behind the ceasefire?
Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, while addressing a session of Parliament, had said: "If Pakistan was really ready to kneel, then why did you stop, why did you bow down. To whom did you surrender?"
