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| India has avenged Pulwama attack by bombing JeM training camp | | | India has avenged the death of 40 CRPF personnel at Pulwama in a suicide attack carried out by Jaish-e-Mohammad Hours after the surgical air strikes by the Indian Air Force in Pakistan, the government on announced that its Mirage 2000 targeted strike was aimed at Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp operated by Jaish operative Maulana Yusuf Azhar at Balakote. Not only this the Indian air strike killed between 200 and 300 militants who had been brought on the launch pads. The Indian Air Force's Mirage 2000 fighter jets bombed three locations in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The strikes lasted 21 minutes beginning at 3.45 am. Balakot, which is 24 km northwest of Muzaffarabad, capital of PoK, was bombed between 3.45 am and 3.53 am. Balakot is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Joint training camps of Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen located in Balakot were targeted.
They had emptied launchpads but not training camps referring to the terrorist infrastructure across the LoC which Pakistan uses to send terrorists to Jammu and Kashmir. Another location in Muzaffarabad was hit between 3.48 am and 3.55 am. The last to be hit was Chakoti, between 3.58 am and 4.04 am. The Indian air strikes come in response to the Jaish suicide bomb attack on a CRPF convoy on 14 February which killed 40 personnel. News of the strikes were first tweeted by Pakistan's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations, Major-General Asif Ghafoor. "Indian Air Force violated Line of Control", following which "Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled" and Indian aircraft went back, he tweeted.
He later followed it up with another tweet saying that the aircraft faced "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" and ended up releasing "payload in haste while escaping which fell near Balakot". No casualties or damage occurred, the Pakistani military spokesperson added. Ghafoor later tweeted pictures showing what he said was the "payload" dropped by Indian fighter jets. "Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open," he tweeted. Indian officials claim they killed between 200 and 300 militants who had been brought on the launch pads Data available on websites tracking planes indicated that an early warning aircraft of the IAF along with an IL-78 refueler was up in the air around the time the incident was reported. Indian and Pakistani fighter jets have been on high alert and have been flying increased sorties since the 14 February terror attack in Pulwama in Kashmir in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed. Pakistani troops resorted to ceasefire violations near Jammu on the Kanachak border and the Indian troops retaliated with strength. This way tension between the two neighbours have been increased with the war clouds hovering over the LoC and on the IB. |
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