I-Day celebrations video: Pak fighter jet shown flying with tricolour


New Delhi, Aug 13 (PTI): A video shot for Independence Day celebrations left many in the government red faced as it featured a Pakistan fighter jet flying with the tricolour. The video, posted on Twitter, was, however, removed after the Twitterati pointed out that the jets were in fact Pakistani aircraft.

The opening portion of the Culture Ministry's over one- minute video celebrating '70 years of Independence' featured an animated sequence of the two JF-17 flying with the Indian flag.

A government source said it was an inadvertent mistake as the JF-17 looks similar to India's Tejas light combat aircraft and it is difficult for an ordinary citizen to know the difference between the two types of aircraft.

However, realising the mistake, it was removed promptly, the source added. The JF-17 jet was jointly developed by Pakistan and China and both are promoting it big time to garner global supply orders.

Incidentally, Sri Lanka, which was in talks for the JF-17, has rejected the aircraft and is now eyeing Tejas. Pakistan intends to make it the main stay of its fighter fleet. In March 2011, Pakistan Navy had issued a full-page advertisement, which appeared in several Pakistani newspapers, featuring the Indian Navy's Delhi, Godavari and Talwar-class warships for the Aman-11 multi-national exercise.

  

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  • Deviprasad, Bnagalore

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    Have you seen these 2 fighter jets in the sky o ground?

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Nashville

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    I have been saying for the last 27 months - This Government is ....

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  • John, Udupi

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    Ultimate faking by the government!. This is enough to say that this government has nothing of its own to show but just misleading the public!!. How can they say Tejas and JF-17 look similar!?. Tejas is having a delta wing but JF is not! Again position of air intakes are different!. What justification! ?.

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  • SK, Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    Dev kumar...pls,pls read this comment.....

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  • Vincent Rodrigues., Frazer Town,Bangalore

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    This quite serious matter and the defence ministry to look into and take proper cation without any delay.

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  • Amigo , Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    You mean Defence Minister???? "Hovn Goencho Saiba LaLa Lala Laa La"

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  • SK, Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 13 2016

    Dev Kumar, Himalayan caves......It seems that the Proof Fabricating machine supplied by you, did not work properly........

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