'Pakistan Army's 'victory' story fake': Imran Khan's sister says it was a ploy to hide defeat during India's Operation Sindoor

Noreen Niazi, sister of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, says the Pakistani military built a fake "victory narrative" around India's Operation Sindoor to hide its own defeat on the battlefield, and Pakistan's cyber watchdog wasted no time responding. Within hours of her interview surfacing, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) summoned her over allegedly spreading "false, offensive and inflammatory" content about the military and state institutions.

Niazi's comments punch a hole in Islamabad's official story about the four-day conflict, right when the government wants the country rallying behind its army. Her account also pulls in Israel and US President Donald Trump, two names that never stay quiet for long in Pakistani politics.

Imran Khan's sister says India's Operation Sindoor was a success

In a sharp interview, Niazi said the fighting did not go the way Pakistan's generals and leaders told the public it did. She insisted India's Operation Sindoor was a major success and that the Pakistan Army has spent its energy since then covering up a loss, not celebrating a win.

Imran Khan's Sister Gets Notice for Spreading 'Fake Narrative'

The backlash from Pakistan's establishment came quickly. The NCCIA summoned Niazi, telling her plainly what she stood accused of. The notice read:

"You have been found to have disseminated false, offensive and inflammatory social media content to defame state institutions and spread fake narratives."

Where Israel fits in, according to her

Niazi made two claims in the interview, neither backed by evidence. The first: India stopped short of escalating further because of a "tacit understanding" tied to Israel. She said the whole episode was meant to smooth Pakistan's path into the Abraham Accords, as Islamabad edges toward recognising Israel.

Pakistan currently sits among the handful of countries that do not recognise Israel as a state and holds no diplomatic ties with it. The Abraham Accords themselves are a set of US-brokered agreements from 2020 that opened diplomatic, economic and security ties between Israel and several Arab nations — the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco among them.

Trump enters the story too

Her second claim points to the White House. Niazi said the engagement, which the Pakistani establishment has called Maarka-e-Haq, was kept from spiralling further after Trump personally stepped in, giving Pakistan's leadership a face-saving way out.

Leaders from the ruling PML-N government did not hold back either, condemning Niazi's remarks as damaging to Pakistan's interests.