Exclusive: A month after Balakot, Pakistan's F-16 lie exposed

Pakistan has consistently denied scrambling F-16s against India in last month's aerial combat that followed the IAF raid on terror camps at Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

"They said they shot down a Pakistani F-16. Pakistan, in the first place, did not use F-16s," said Major-General Asif Ghafoor, their military spokesman, on Feb 27, a day after the Indian strikes happened.

But, here's how India Today's Open-Source Intelligence team nailed Islamabad's lies that no American fighter jet was used in the aerial engagement post Balakot.