00:00All right, and this is an India Today exclusive, Exposed Pakistan Operation Sindhu retreat at sea.
00:09Fast camera, Pakistan Navy collapsed.
00:17And warships prowling, Pakistan waters, the Navy's pullback with tail between their legs.
00:30Well, at the peak of the conflict, Pakistan Navy went into complete hiding.
00:47The warships took refuge near the Iran border.
00:51Caught on satellite camera, Pakistan Navy then hid in the terminals is what we are learning.
00:57This is an India Today exclusive, telling our viewers about new commercial satellite imagery,
01:06which has been analyzed, showing Pakistan Navy warships dispersing to commercial docks,
01:12while others to refuge at its western port of Gwadar, close to the Iranian border.
01:21I'm going straight across to my colleague Ankit for more details on that story at this point in time.
01:27Ankit, break this down for us.
01:29Well, Sneha, during the fog of war, a lot of things get lost.
01:35We have seen for past several months now, past three months now,
01:39that Pakistan has been utilizing this fog of war to broadcast its own narrative.
01:45The narrative from Rawalpindi, from Islamabad, is that Pakistan gave a proper, strong reply to India.
01:53And what happens because war and conflict is such a fluid situation,
01:56there is very little evidence to establish who did what.
02:00For the first time, for the first time on TV, Sneha, we are bringing the pictures which will end this debate for all.
02:08Now, this overview, before we go to the satellite pictures,
02:13this overview shows where Karachi is, where India is, and where this point, this Gwadar port is, remember,
02:22roughly 100 kilometers away from the Iranian border.
02:26This yellow line is the Pakistan-Iran border.
02:30So, right behind this border is the Gwadar port.
02:35Now, the visuals that we are going to show you for the first time on TV
02:39will establish how at the height, at the peak of Operation Shindoor,
02:44the leading warships of Pakistan Navy were sent from Karachi to Gwadar.
02:52Warships, which were supposed to be either here or in these waters, Sneha,
02:56were sent from Karachi to Gwadar, Sirshasan, if you say, upside-down pose by the Pakistan Navy
03:05during the height, the peak of Operation Shindoor.
03:09Now, this is the first image.
03:11This shows the Karachi, the Karachi port, but it also has one more detail.
03:18You see this part.
03:19This is the naval dockyard of Pakistan Navy.
03:25Pakistani warships are supposed to be here.
03:28What you see on 8th of May, two days after India launched the strikes on Pakistan terror network,
03:36you see three Pakistani warships stationed at a commercial cargo port.
03:44This is a commercial cargo port where Pakistani Navy has taken shelter, and these are not alone.
03:50Although there is a bit of cloud coverage here, you can see one more,
03:54one more Pakistani Navy frigate stationed at this terminal, which is not a Navy dockyard.
04:01Navy dockyard is separate.
04:03You see all these containers.
04:05This warship has taken shelter at the commercial port of Karachi.
04:10We will discuss these pictures in more details, but let's go back to these pictures.
04:16Now, this is Gwadar port, very close, roughly 100 kilometers away from Iran border,
04:21and this port is jam-packed on May 10th, jam-packed with at least seven Pakistani warships.
04:30Now, these are not just any other warships.
04:33We have Pakistani Navy's Zulfikar-class frigates.
04:36Why are they important?
04:37Because Pakistan has only four of them.
04:39These are China-made frigates.
04:41And remember, exactly six months, exactly six months before Operation Sindur began,
04:49Pakistan Navy released a video.
04:51They showed an anti-ship missile firing from this particular class of frigates.
04:58Now, come May 10th, when these ships were needed, they were sent to the backward position, very close to the Iranian boundary at the Gwadar port.
05:09These two ships, these two vessels, are Pakistan Navy's Tughril-class frigates.
05:17Again, based on Chinese technology, but these are the largest that the Pakistan Navy has.
05:23And these two, again, Pakistan has four of them.
05:25Fifty percent of their Tughril-class frigates are stationed here.
05:30They should have been in the waters, but no.
05:33They are taking reviews at a commercial naval port.
05:37This is a very special ship.
05:42This is Oliver Perry-class frigate.
05:45This was gifted by the USA to Pakistan.
05:47What has happened is that between May 8th and May 10th, this has traveled all the way from Karachi in east to Gwadar in west.
05:58So, this is the U-turn which has been finally established how Pakistani Navy responded to the Indian movement in the waters.
06:09Now, we will once again show you what was happening at Karachi.
06:13You see this part.
06:15This is Pakistan naval dockyard.
06:17Which lies vacant.
06:19The warships are supposed to be here.
06:21Not here.
06:22Not here.
06:24Not here.
06:25But the warships has taken shelter at the commercial port.
06:29And because of the cloud cover, we cannot see all of the warships.
06:32But we can at least see four different warships at Karachi.
06:36Here is another.
06:37This is frigate at the container terminal.
06:40Now, this is in line, Sneha.
06:43This is in line with Indian government stand that Pakistan used this tactic, if you remember, also in the air.
06:49Their air operations relied on the cover of a lot of commercial aircrafts, a lot of firing that happened, a lot of drone movements happened during operation from Pakistan side, while there was commercial aircraft in the air.
07:05Now, this is the Navy version.
07:06For the first time, we have visual evidence.
07:09We have visual evidence to establish this retreat, this on-camera retreat by the Pakistani military.
07:17The warships, the leading warships that Pakistan was supposed to be deploying at the front or at least in the waters, they are either taking shelters at commercial cargo terminals, or they have traveled hundreds of kilometers back, very close to the Iranian border, in the west, not in the east.
07:35Sneha.
07:36All right.
07:37You know, what I also want to ask you, Ankit, is because at this time, I recall very, very well that Pakistan's leadership was actually responding with talk of, you know, strong retaliation and all of that.
07:47But these satellite pictures of Karachi and the Gwadar ports really analyzed by all of you just show a very, very different story, isn't it?
07:58You know, talking about how it really, there was, in fact, establishing a far more defensive sort of a naval posture on the part of Pakistan during Operation Sindhu, very different from what they claimed.
08:09It's 50 years, Sneha, if there is one field where Pakistan has really outsmarted India, it is the field of narrative setting, this creating this fog of disinformation, letting the entire nation to believe that something else has happened, while the reality is entirely different.
08:28Now, you will not see these pictures making their way to Pakistani social media or Pakistani mainstream media, for that matter.
08:36What is more unfortunate is, during past hundred days, we have seen a lot of reporting by supposed Western publications, you know, the international publications which operate either from Europe or U.S.
08:47Unfortunately, even these, even these kind of evidences do not end up being part of their reporting, but for the first time, again, this is commercially obtained satellite pictures, Neha, so anybody can go and buy these pictures, but what they show is, this is not supplied by the government, this is not supplied by the Indian military.
09:09These commercially obtained satellite pictures show the definitive movement of Pakistani navy, the posture of Pakistani navy, it was not forward moving, they were not looking to tackle the Indian navy, and the reason, the reason is, is this, this map has been compiled by an innocent expert, Damien Simon, this is based on the data or the claims made by the Pakistani navy.
09:36Now, what it shows, it shows, it shows the position of INS Vikrant, Pakistani navy, in their own words, claim that INS, that they have been tracking the movement of INS Vikrant, and because INS Vikrant was roaming in these waters, for some reason, they decided to put their warships at Karachi, at Gwadar, what it does is, Karachi, because there is, remember, 60% of Pakistanis,
10:06Pakistanis business cargoes, they come from Karachi port, so hiding behind commercial vessels, maybe third country vessels, if India attacked, they could have taken a cover, remember, India did an aggressive act on some kind of commercial ships, but what they have been doing was, they were hiding these warships, at cargo terminals, at commercial terminals, and rest of the warships were sent, were sent to Gwadar, which was, remember, developed as a commercial port,
10:32a commercial port, it is a cornerstone, or the supposed cornerstone, of the China-Pakistan economic corridor, this was supposed to be a commercial port, no longer.
10:42During Operation Hindu, we have seen, that this Gwadar port provided, a naval shelter, so, Gwadar, from now on, will be considered, as a legitimate naval target, during the times of conflict, there is enough evidence to show, and this is Karachi, I will once again show, this picture, remember, 50% of Tugril class frigates, 50% of Pakistanis, Julfikar class frigates, they are leading frigates, they are not at Karachi, not at forward locations,
11:09they are at backward locations, in Gwadar, not in international waters, not challenging the Indian Navy, Sneha.
11:16Challenging the Indian Navy, weak surveillance, failure to track threats, and low morale, I think this, in a way, really, sums up the story of the Pakistan Navy, during, in the peak of Operation Sindhu, isn't it, Ankit?
11:30That's right, that's right, that's right, Sneha. See, what has, what has happened during Operation Sindhu is, a lot of activity, a lot of activity, was, was about air force.
11:41Very difficult to establish, what has happened in, in air, air operations. Remember, we have seen, three phases, of Operation Sindhu, in first phase, we showed, using satellite pictures, that the, that at least nine terror, terror centers,
11:56or centers, including the HQ of Jaisen Mohamad, the HQ of Lashkar-e-Toiba, in Muridke, and several other, you know, terror hotspots, in POK, in Pakistan, they were decisively hit.
12:07They were, they were hit with 100% precision. In step two, we used satellite pictures, to show, that the Pakistani air bases, the Pakistani air bases, they are run, where they're hangers,
12:19they have been kind of, they have, they have suffered a definitive, definitive losses, during Operation Sindhu, but for the first time, because the nature, the very nature of Navy is,
12:31that it moves quite slow, the scope for commercial satellite pictures, to get a picture of what was happening, is that much higher.
12:39And that is why, this posture, this retreat, this runaway Navy movement, on part of Pakistani Navy, has been captured, and this is undoubtedly, the picture, that defines Pakistani Navy tactics.
12:52Tactics number one, send your, send your warships, away from the naval dockyard, send them, right where the cargo ships are, few, few meters away, and if India hits one of these, if India hits one of these, start crying, because the commercial container will also be hit.
13:11So, this is Pakistan strategy number one, Pakistan strategy number one, Pakistan strategy number two is, send your warships, from Karachi, and that includes submarine as well, send your warships, from Karachi, to Gwadar, the Indian, you know, the Indian side is, is, is, is in east, but send, send your entire fleet, or, or at least the portion of your fleet, to west.
13:31Now, how does it look like, this is how, how, how it look like, look like, look like, you have Pakistan maritime security agencies, MPVs, lined up, inactive,
13:41you have two grill class frigates, lined up, inactive, and then you have Zulfikar class frigates, these frigates were designed, to take, stand, against, supposed aggression, of Indian Navy, in the words of Pakistani DZPR, ISPR, but in, but if you believe these pictures, and there is no reason not to believe, because these are neutral, independent, commercially obtained satellite pictures,
14:06the Pakistani Navy, the Pakistani Navy, was, in a surrender mode, at the height, of conflict, between India, and Pakistan, between May 7th, and May 10th, earlier this year.
14:17All right, I'm going to leave it there for the moment, Ankit Kumar getting asked, those big, important details, as far as Operation Sindhu is concerned, like I said earlier, speaks volumes of the fact, that Pakistan was extremely nervous, the Navy was unprepared, was, in fact, clearly on the back foot, like Ankit here is telling us, as far as the satellite imagery access, by India today is concerned, giving an indication, how at the peak of the conflict, Pakistan Navy warships,
14:44were shifted out of the naval dockyard, at Karachi, docked commercial terminals, is what satellite pictures, essentially show, some of them, in fact, took refuge, at the western port of Gwadar, instead of sailing, towards India.
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