New Delhi, Sep 29, 2016: India hits terror launch pads across LoC. Eleven days after a terror attack killed 18 soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, India carried out “surgical strikes” on terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control, inflicting massive casualties and dramatically heightening tensions in the region.
India hits terror launch pads across LoC.
An unspecified number of terrorists and Pakistani troops were killed in the late Wednesday operation across Kupwara and Poonch sectors as the army moved Special Forces into Pakistan-held Kashmir, officials said here on Thursday.
Pakistan, however, insisted that no “surgical strike” took place and that there were only firing and artillery shelling between the two armies across the Line of Control (LoC) that killed two of its soldiers and left some others wounded. Pakistan threatened to repel any Indian attack as India hits terror launch pads across LoC.
But Pakistani media said one Indian soldier, identified as Chandu Babulal Chohan, 22, from Maharashtra, had been captured and eight others had been killed.
Indian Army sources said one soldier inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan but denied he was part of the surgical strike. They insisted that the Indian military suffered no casualties when India hits terror launch pads across LoC.
Hours after New Delhi announced the “surgical strike”, Home Minister Rajnath Singh briefed opposition leaders. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar separately met diplomats from 22 countries over the Indian operation as India hits terror launch pads across LoC.
A high alert was sounded on Thursday along the Pakistan border in Punjab and Gujarat. Army columns moved towards the Punjab border while villagers in a 10-km border belt in the state were told to move to safer areas. In Gujarat, fishermen were told not to venture into the sea.
The Indian military said it targeted “some terrorist teams” across the LoC on Wednesday night when India hits terror launch pads across LoC.
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