Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday, 12 May, described Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reported remarks about clouds helping the Indian Air Force jets escape Pakistani radars during Balakot airstrikes as "painfully embarrassing".
Mehbooba said she wondered whether the prime minister authorising the operation in bad weather by overruling the advice of the IAF led to the strikes “failing” to hit the intended target.