After the initial reports of the crash, most of the discussion seems to have veered towards why was it not declared officially.
Crash of a military aircraft isn’t uncommon or failure of a force. There is bound to be losses in peacetime. It could be due to numerous reasons including human failure. No defence force is immune to it and any celebrations over a crash in the adversaries side are juvenile and childish.
It is a little surprising though about no official announcement of the crash this time. It is customary for an official statement after crash of an aircraft. Because it is a significant event. In these times of social media, it is bound to come out in the open. Hence, non announcement by the ISPR can’t be called hiding it but just keeping mum.
In Paksiatn, these matters are handled by the ISPR. There is no logical reason for them not to do their job, which is to keep the nation apprised of significant events under their domain, which this event was.
They haven’t done the best when it comes to handling these issues. Poorly edited pictures of martyred soldiers to making bombastic and over the top press releases are a few that show their ineptitude.
Crash wasn’t a failure as such but ISPR keeping quite doesn’t appear to be a good move.