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They also obtain from black market. See you should go through the Mig21 shoot down F-16 thread, different videos posted there which strongly points out more than two jets crashing and more than one pilot getting caught. In fact in one video they are claiming that they beat up the other pilot...

All three parachutes fell on the Pakistani side.

Those missiles were released as a part of 2009 deal. I don't know the expiry date of Aim120C-5, but 10 years is a long time. They have to use them or it will be dead or malfunction.

Everyone saw three parachutes, so there was at least one more combat aircraft crashing that day. Which aircraft it was has not been 100% clear. IAF was waiting in ambush, The idea was to lure in the F-16s in the SAM kill zone. F-16s panicked dropped their loads in haste and fired BVR at long...