The Stealth Shift: How Pakistan’s J-35 Deal and the May 2025 Air War Are Rewriting South Asian Air Power
(By Khalid Masood) Introduction: The Announcement That Changed the Conversation In May 2026, Air Vice-Marshal Tariq Ghazi, Pakistan’s Deputy Chief of Air Staff, confirmed what defence analysts had speculated for months. Standing before the press in Islamabad, he stated that Islamabad had laid the “foundations… for the acquisition of advanced capabilities”—including long-range precision weapons, next-generation…