Pentagon's Denial after US Journal Report, no report on Pak F16 Count; Audit of F16s

The United States defence department it was not aware of any investigation that was conducted to ascertain if Pakistan had lost an F-16 in a dogfight with Indian fighter jets on February 27. This deflates the claim made by a U.S journal that showed no missing F-16 in Pak's armoury. Foreign policy magazine reported Thursday that US defence personnel conducted recently a physical count of Pakistan’s F-16s and found all intact, none missing. It attributed the finding to two unidentified senior US defence officials and said the count was conducted at the invitation of Pakistan.