IAF’s 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets crossed the LoC to drop 1000 kg laser bombs at major camps- Balakote in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and in two sites of PoK- Muzaffarabad and Chikoti- belonging to Pakistan based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba on Tuesday morning.
When Indian Air Force (IAF) launched pre-dawn air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) in PoK Pakistan was caught napping.
It took India 12 days after the heinous suicide bomb attack by Pakistan based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which killed 40 CRPF personnel on February 14, to give Pakistan a stern message.
IAF’s 12 Mirage 2000 fighter jets crossed the LoC to drop 1000 kg laser bombs at major camps- Balakote in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and in two sites of PoK- Muzaffarabad and Chikoti- belonging to Pakistan based terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba on Tuesday morning.
As India carried out a ‘non-military, preemptive action’ far away from any civilian presence the well-appreciated job, that eliminated around 200-300 terrorists, done by IAF was the first of its kind by India since the 1971 war-in which India played a major role in helping Bangladesh to earn independence from Pakistan.
IAF’s air strikes have already been dubbed by many as Surgical Strikes 2.0 which was claimed as much bigger than the September 2016 Uri attack.
Pakistan Armed Force’s spokesperson Major General Asif Ghafoor admitted that IAF dropped laser bombs in PoK and in Balakote- Jaish-e-Mohammed’s biggest suicide bombing training camp early on Tuesday morning.
Earlier, during 1999 Kargil war Indian government led by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee restricted the use of air force inside India’s own LoC.
One of the key reasons that restricted Vajpayee from using air force in the 1999 Kargil war was world over many countries, not just India, exercise extreme caution while carrying out air strikes because exercising air power on foreign soil is considered to be an act of war.
