The paf deployed the F-6S mainly on defensive CAS missions over their own bases, but without the preferential Air superiority , the PAF was unable to conduct effective offensive operations and its attacks were largely ineffective.:107–108 The Indian Air Force's raids destroyed one USAFand one UN in Dacca while the Canada's RCAF DHC-4
Caribou was also destroyed in Islamabad alongside with the USAF's beech U-8 owned by the US
MILITARY liaison chief CHUCK YEAGER .:Sporadic raids by the Indian air force continued against PAF forward air bases in Pakistan until the end of the war and interdiction and close-support operations were maintain
The PAF played a more limited part in the operations and were reinforced by F-104S from JORDAN, Mirages from an unidentified Middle Eastern ally (remains unknown) and by F-86s from Saudi Arabia.:
Their arrival helped camouflage the extent of PAF losses and the Libyan F-5S were reportedly deployed to SARGODHA AFB, perhaps as a potential training unit to prepare Pakistani pilots for an influx of more F-5s from Saudi Ara
The IAF was able to conduct a wide range of missions – troop support; air combat; deep penetration strikes; para-dropping behind enemy lines; feints to draw enemy fighters away from the actual target; bombing and reconnaissance.:107
The PAF, which was solely focused on air combat, was blown out of the subcontinent’s skies within the first week of the war. Those PAF aircraft that survived took refuge at Iranian air bases or in concrete bunkers, refusing to offer a fight.

India flew 1,978 sorties in the East and about 4,000 in Pakistan, while the PAF flew about 30 and 2,840 at both front. More than 80 percent of IAF sorties were close-support and interdiction and about 45 IAF aircraft were lost.
Source : Bowman, Martin (2016-01-30). Cold War Jet Combat: Air-to-Air Jet Fighter Operations 1950–1972. Pen and Sword. ISBN 9781473874633.