New Delhi : India on Tuesday carried outĀ pre-dawn strikesĀ in Pakistan, days after Pulwama attack. Reports say that terror launch pads across the LoC in Balakot, Chakothi and Muzaffarabad sectors have been completely destroyed along with terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) control rooms.
Reacting to the news, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet wrote, “I salute the pilots of the IAF.ā
Also, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has called the strike “self-defence” as Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) he said is “our own territory”.
“I salute the bravery of Indian Air Force pilots who have made us proud by striking terror targets in Pakistan,” says Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal through twitter.
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor also reacted to the ongoing developments and wrote, “Jai Hind.”
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has congratulated IAF for the strikes in Pakistan.
Lauding air force over the feat, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee created a new acronym for the Indian Air Force. She said that IAF means “India’s Amazing Fighters”.
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.
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”.
