India Claims its Jets Strike Terror Camps inside Pakistan
India claimed its jets targeted (terror camps) across the ceasefire line in Kashmir on Tuesday morning.
India claimed its jets targeted (terror camps) across the ceasefire line in Kashmir on Tuesday morning.
“The military has taken this necessary step for the country’s security. It was an act of extreme valour. PM [Narendra] Modi had earlier given the armed forces the freedom to take action. Today, the entire country is with the forces,” said Prakash Javadekar, the human resources development minister, in the first official acknowledgement of the operation on Tuesday.
The early morning incursion, which the Pakistanis say caused no casualties or damage, comes amid the highest tensions after a suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy that killed at least 40 security personnel earlier this month.
“Air Force carried out aerial strike early morning today at terror camps across the LoC [Line of Control] and Completely destroyed it,” the Indian minister of state for agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said earlier on Twitter.
The Indian army and senior ministers have yet to officially comment but sources told an Indian news agency that 12 fighter jets had crossed into Pakistani territory and destroyed a militant training camp. Accrding to Guardian.
Pakistan’s armed forces spokesman major-general Asif Ghafoor said on Tuesday morning there had been contact between the two countries’ aircraft after a breach by the Indian side.
“Indian Air Force violated Line of Control,” Ghafoor tweeted around 5am local time. “Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back.”
