NEW DELHI, 9 OCT

BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla shared an image of a dinner menu at a ceremony of the Indian Air Force (IAF) that featured several dishes named after Pakistani cities that the Indian armed forces targeted during Operation Sindoor as well as Operation Bandar in 2019. 

The image of the dinner menu has gone viral on social media as users shared it and praised the IAF for roasting the neighbouring country. 

The menu included dishes like ‘Rawalpindi Chicken Tikka Masala’, ‘Rafiqui Rhara Mutton’, ‘Bholari Paneer Methi Malai’, ‘Sukkur Sham Savera Kofta’, ‘Sargodha Dal Makhani’, ‘Jacobabad Mewa Pulao’ and ‘Bahawalpur Naan’.

The desserts served with the main course were ‘Balakot Tiramisu’, ‘Muzaffarabad Kulfi Faluda’ and ‘Muridke Meetha Pan’.

Sharing the image on X, Poonawalla wrote, “From serving dishes to serving justice. Now, even the menu of IAF conveys a new normal. Gone are the days when 26/11 took place and no action was allowed as per P Chidambaram by foreign powers…”

Titled ‘93 Years of IAF: Infallible, Impervious and Precise’, the dinner menu targeted Pakistan in a light-hearted manner, as it mentioned the locations that were targeted during India’s recently conducted Operation Sindoor and the Balakot airstrike in 2019.

Operation Sindoor was carried out on 7 May, during which the Indian Armed Forces targeted nine terror hubs in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The precision strikes targeted several locations across Rawalakot, Kotli, Muzaffarabad, Bhimber, Neelum Valley and many more. 

The strikes were conducted in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. 

The Operation Bandar in February 2019 was in response to the Pulwama terror attack, where a convoy of CRPF personnel was targeted by terrorists, and 40 of them were killed. The Indian forces destroyed a training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) group in Balakot.