Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – India carried out pre-dawn strike on a terror camp across the Line of Control, according to reports. The strike was carried out at around 3:30 this morning by 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The aircraft dropped 1,000 kg laser-guided bombs on a major terror camp across the Line of Control, completely destroying it, news agency ANI reported, quoting Air Force sources.
Sources told NDTV that the strikes, on what is reported to be a training camp of the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, were “100 per cent successful” and went on exactly as planned.
India’s operation comes two week after the terror attack in Pulwama in which over 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed when a suicide bomber of the Jaish-e-Mohammed exploded a car full of bombs next to a security convoy.
The Jaish-e-Mohammed, which is led by Masood Azhar, had claimed responsibility for the February 14 attack and had also posted videos of the bomber, who had joined the terror group a year ago.
Soon after the Pulwama terror attack, India had appealed to the international community to back the naming of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar as a “UN designated terrorist”.
On September 29, 2016, the army had carried out surgical strikes on seven terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) in retaliation to an attack on its base in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri earlier that month.
- 1 IAF sources claim that 1,000kg bombs were dropped on terror camps across the LoC
- 1.1 At 0330 hours on 26th February a group of Mirage 2000 Indian Fighter jets struck a major terrorist camp across the LoC and completely destroyed it: ANI quoting IAF sources
- 1.2 In 2016, India had carried out surgical strikes across the LoC following an attack by Pakistan-based terrorists on the Uri base camp.
