Fiza’ya II: Pakistan Air Force 1990–2025, a 2025 hardbound sequel by Ravi Rikhye and the late Pushpindar Singh Chopra, surveys PAF operations, modernization, and the Pakistan–China air nexus from 1990 to 2024/25, with contents spanning Kargil, decade-by-decade capability growth, and a late section on “Operation Sindoor.” As a reference, it compiles dense orders-of-battle, platform histories, and acquisition timelines, offering a one-stop PAF-centric chronicle that will interest airpower researchers and South Asia watchers. Yet the review and criticism from an Indian vantage point are stark: the book’s headline assertion that India has “failed” in air modernization, is now “barely superior” to the PAF, and becomes “totally outclassed” once China is factored reads like a thesis in search of the evidence. It avoids direct, symmetric IAF comparisons while delivering sweeping verdicts, with little transparency on comparative datasets, scenario design, or force-on-force modeling—no clear view into assumptions on sortie generation, AEW&C and GBAD coverage, basing vulnerability, or industrial resilience. This asymmetry, paired with near-term event framing, risks selection bias and rhetorical escalation over replicable analysis, especially given concurrent Indian inductions and upgrades. On authorship, Rikhye’s long-standing ORBAT-driven strengths are evident, but the tendency toward provocative conclusions strains credibility without methodological annexes; attaching Chopra’s formidable aviation historiography to categorical, under-sourced claims creates a tension between legacy rigor and present framing. The result is a substantial PAF compendium burdened by polemical judgments that Indian analysts will treat as hypotheses, not settled findings.