It's all Twitter BS. Just as the earlier Pakistani claims of Indian Air Force jets being downed was also Twitter BS. That BS remains a BS regardless of what AVM Bharti and CDS Lt.Gen. Anil Chauhan says.
At this time I am going by AVM Bharti's "Back home" statement.
Any country (other than an unmentionable one) will welcome its pilot "back home " and laude his/her achievement regardless of him/her getting shot down.
That picture from the magazine Life and a reverse search will reveal the name of the pilot and his daughter.
It shows love, honor, respect, patriotism something missing in the screaming I hear on the Arnab Goswami show