United States is very closely following the reports which have claimed that Pakistan misused American-made F-16 fighter jets against India in the recent aerial confrontation between the two countries. US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Robert Palladino told reporters at his biweekly news conference in Washington yesterday that the US has seen those reports and they are following that issue very closely.
He was responding to questions that Pakistan has violated the end-user agreement on F-16 that it procured from the United States. The Indian Air Force last Thursday displayed parts of an AMRAAM beyond visual range air-to-air missile as evidence to prove that Pakistan deployed US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets during an aerial raid targeting Indian military installations in Kashmir after India’s anti-terror operation in Balakot.