This sounds like a load of BS.another tweet by lara to support her narrative.
He says in the article:
"Pakistan military sources told Asia Times that the F-16 fleet was assembled at the Sargodha air base where the US officials conducted the count. "
Firstly, the sourcing is from Pak military............why would Pak military leak this info only to this Saikat nutjob? Isn't this something that someone like Ghafoora would be tom toming about?
Secondly, (as I have said couple of times before) de-escalation hasn't happened! Why would Pakis assemble all their (76 in all) F16s in one location...just for US to conduct the count??? Don't Pakis have higher operational needs for F16s to be fully deployed & dispersed??
This Saikat Datta sounds like an slimy asshole. His articles come a day after someone reports something big.....and very curiously the article will shoot down a pro-Indian news (he's the guy who shot down Praveen Swami's article on Shahzad-ud-din) & buttress an anti-Indian articles. How could he be alwasy working on the exact same story as others....just delayed by a day.