For domestic and diaspora consoomption the illusion of competent PakFauj and immortal ghazi sepoys have to be maintained.
The Porki awaam knows and tolerates their top brass pizza and ice cream antics because they are seen as the only defence against India.
Now if casualtys and names of the dead troops are put out everytime, the Paki awaam will know that their incompetent army is getting thrashed by the hendu baniya.
The next question along this chain is then, why tolerate an organization that only mooches national wealth and is extremely bad at doing its one critical job?
Why shouldn’t then this Westernized organization be overthrown and replaced with an Emirate following the Sharia kanoon in the Quran Sharif?
To add to this, even if really 4 trees and 1 crow died and Verappan didn't shoot an F16 and still tasted fine Pindi chai, would the hindoos riot and "protest" in the streets to avenge this humiliation inflicted on them by the Muslims? Nope, in a month positive or negative both would be forgotten, the hindoo has short term memory.
Meanwhile If they openly admitted that their Jihadi training madarsa was bombed, while their PAF hawabaaz were sleeping AND on top of that their F16 got shot by some hindoo in a museum grade MiG 21, all hell would have broken lose on the streets of Pakistan to avenge this humiliation by the hindoos by demanding that the PakFauj wage a full scale war on Kaffiristan.
Now you, with your posh gated communities in Lahore, Karachi, Pindi and Islamabad, you with your ice cream, pizza and underwear selling chains, why would you be willing to wage war against a country against which you have lost 4 times continuously?
Now to avert this possibility of religious fury or religously powered demand for war by the awam upon you, wouldn't your organization cover up all casualties, and pay massive sums to Western media houses and assorted gora( gora == credible, remember ) analysts and "experts" to spin your national humiliation as if nothing happened at all?