Indian Government's Official Statement on the ATTACK conducted by IAF

Surgical Strike 2.0: Government of India has released an official statement about the Attack conducted by the Indian Air Force #IndiaStrikesBack

Published: Tuesday,Feb 26, 2019 14:44 PM GMT-07:00

Priyanka Chauhan

This morning news channels were was flooded with reports of India conducting it's second surgical strike at three terrorist launch pads in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The attack was carried out at around 3:30 am.

While social media platforms were buzzing with the news, there was no official confirmation on the same. But, now, our Foreign Secretary, Vijay Gokhale has released an official statement.

In his statement, he said, "Credible intelligence was received that Jaish-e-Mohammed was attempting another suicide terror attack in various parts of the country & fidayeen jihadis were being trained for this purpose."

"Credible information was received that JeM was attempting other attacks in the country. A pre-emptive strike became important. India struck the biggest camp of JeM in Balakot."

He further added, "India is firmly and resolutely committed to taking all measures to fight the menace of terrorism. This non-military pre-emptive action was targeted specifically at JeM camp. The selection of the target was also conditioned by our desire to avoid civilian casualties."

Revealing details of the terrorist camps, he said that the camp was led by Maulana Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghauri, brother-in-law of JeM Chief Masood Azhar.

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This surgical strike 2.0 was carried out by the Indian Air force after the Pulwama attack where one suicide bomber rammed his car into the truck carrying the CRPF personnel in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.

Trends like #JaiHind #IndiaStrikesBack #SurgicalStrike2 are trending on all social media platforms.

We salute the brave hearts of the Indian Air Force.