India, March 2: In yet another embarrassment for Pakistan and its lobby in India including a handful of media, the US aerospace and defence major Lockheed Martin rubbished Pakistan PM Imran Khan's claims that the company was contemplating suing India's false claim over shooting down PAF's F-16 fighter jet by IAF's Wing Commander Abhinandan.
Danyal Gilani, a high-ranking Pakistani civil servant, had said in a tweet that Lockheed Martin is going to file lawsuit against false Indian claims over factually incorrect claim of shooting down Pakistani F-16.
Lockheed Martin manufactures F-16 jet.
Replying to the tweet, the company, "Lockheed Martin has made no such comments."
To allay the embarrassment, Gilani took back the statement by acknowledging the statement was wrongly attributed to the company as he picked the report from a website.
Pakistan has relentlessly attempting to deny its F-16 was shot down by India's MIG-21 Bison, which was flown by Abhinandan.
However, Indian Air Force had discovered a debris component of a AMRAAM missile which is only fitted into an F-16, proving the use of F-16s into Indian air space by PAF on Feb 28.
The deployment of F-16s was also discovered by the electronic signature when it made its intrusion into Indian airspace.
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