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French Ambassador to India Alexandre Ziegler on Thursday denied media reports that said Pakistani Air Force pilots were trained to fly Rafale jets for the Qatari Air Force.
Alexandre Ziegler took to Twitter and confirmed it to be a “fake news”.
I can confirm that it is fake news. https://t.co/3XpPnfPqUc
— Alexandre Ziegler (@FranceinIndia) April 11, 2019
According to reports, Aviation International News, in February had published an article about the first Rafale fighter for Qatar being delivered.
In the article, a sentence said, “The first batch of pilots trained for Qatar in November 2017 were Pakistani exchange officers.”