New Delhi:
Celebrations broke out in India on Thursday after it was announced that the Indian Army launched surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads across the LoC. People at various parts of the country, including Patna and Bhopal, were seen dancing, lighting fire crackers, hugging and congratulating each other after the announcement of the surgical strike in PoK.
The Army on Thursday its special forces inflicted “significant casualties†on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK).
Defence sources said seven terror launch pads across the Line of Control(LoC) were destroyed by special forces of the Indian Army on the intervening night of September 28 and 29 in a nearly five-hour-long operation during which heliborne and ground forces were deployed.
The announcement of the sudden action by the army to prevent fresh terror attacks was made by the DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, 11 days after the strike by Pakistan-based terror outfit JeM on an Indian army camp in Uri in Kashmir over which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the attackers will not go “unpunished†and that the sacrifice of 18 jawans will not go in vain.
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“Based on very credible and specific information which we received yesterday that some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the Line of Control with an aim to carry out infiltration and terrorist strikes in Jammu & Kashmir and in various other metros in our country, the Indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launch pads,†Gen Singh told a news conference during which External affairs ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup was also present.
Pakistan, however, dismissed as “fabrication of truth†India’s claim that it has conducted a military operation across the LoC to target terrorist launching pads, terming it as a “quest†by India to create media hype by rebranding cross-border fire as surgical strike.
“There has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross border fire initiated and conducted by India which is existential phenomenon,†Pakistan army said in a statement in Islamabad.
(With inputs from agencies)
