To discuss this further, now we get two views.

First, I'm joined by Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Rzvan Said Sheikh.

Ambassador Sheikh, welcome to the news hour.

Thank you for joining us.

We saw Pakistan's Prime Minister Shabashirif called those Indian strikes a blatant act of war, a promised retaliation.

Give us Pakistan's view at this moment. What could that retaliation

look like? Well, thank you, Anna, for having me at this show. As you have mentioned,

that the Prime Minister of Pakistan called it a blatant act of aggression.

That's what exactly it was, because it was conducted without affording any evidence of the

incident that took place in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in Pahelga. So it was a presumptuous pretext on which this aggression was conducted without affording evidence

and also without accepting Pakistan's well-intended offer of conducting an impartial, neutral inquiry into the incident investigation,

to the incident which was generally welcomed and supported by the international community.

So Pakistan yesterday acted in self-defense, and we, as you have seen and mentioned, downed

five Indian fighter jets, three of them, Raphael, one, S2, 330, and then, of course, the

make 29 as well.

And is that the downing of those jets? Is that the totality of the Pakistani response or will there be more?

Well, there was a meeting of the National Security Committee this morning in Islamabad.

It took a full view of the entire situation.

And if you look at the declaration that has come out of it,

you would notice that it mentions that Pakistan still reserves the right to respond to the time

and place of its choosing. So whatever we did yesterday was in self-defense,

but under Article 51 of the UN Charter,

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