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lol this is funny if PAF retaliates it basically proves Indian version
27 Feb 19: PAF shot down two Indian aircrafts inside Pakistani airspace: DG ISPR
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India launches air raids on Pakistani territory
India foreign secretary says jets hit Jaish-e-Mohammed camp in Pakistan, but Islamabad denies casualties in air raids.
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Pakistan reported the Indian airspace incursion, with military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor saying its air force jets were scrambling to respond, forcing the Indian aircraft to "release [their] payload in haste while escaping".
Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, however, asserted that the jets had hit their target, and that "a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated".
"The government of India is firmly and resolutely committed to taking all necessary measures to fight the menace of terrorism," he told reporters in New Delhi. "Hence this non-military pre-emptive action was specifically targeted at the Jaish-e-Mohammed camp."
C Uday Bhaskar, the director of the Society for Policy Studies based in New Delhi, said: "India has sent a very firm signal."
"The fact that air power has been used for the first time against a terrorist target to my mind signalled to Pakistan that India is demonstrating resolve in terms of using military power, particularly air power," he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with his top government officials in New Delhi where he was briefed about the predawn air attack.
Hour later, speaking at an election rally in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi said "the country is in safe hands", avoiding direct reference to the air raids.
"I pledge on this soil, ... I will not let the country bend."
Al Jazeera's Faiz Jamil, reporting from New Delhi, said that the Indian government has been under a lot of pressure to act in the wake of the Kashmir attack.
"This attack was expected and one of the reasons it was delayed was the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the region," Jamil said.
"But everyone did expect that this would somehow happen sometime soon, especially with [general] elections coming up in April."
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Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.
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Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open.
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A special meeting of the National Security Committee chaired by the Prime Minister Imran Khan was held at his office on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Finance, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and other civil and military officials.
"Forum strongly rejected Indian claim of targeting an alleged terrorist camp near Balakot and the claim of heavy casualties. Once again, Indian government has resorted to a self-serving, reckless and fictitious claim," the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
"Forum concluded that India has committed uncalled for aggression to which Pakistan shall respond at the time and place of its choosing."
Hassan Akbar, director at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute think-tank, termed the strikes "a very provocative and aggressive action by India, irrespective of whether any infrastructure was destroyed or anyone was killed or injured".
"They did drop payload in various sectors including in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and this constitutes a serious violation of Pakistan's airspace and sovereignty."
Akbar said Pakistan's response could range from hitting Indian artillery positions along the Line of Control to taking "a more escalatory position" and launching similar airstrikes on Indian military targets.
Sounds of aircraft
Local residents and journalists in Pakistan told Al Jazeera that the sounds of aircraft and an explosion were heard in the Jaba area of Mansehra district, located about 60km from the LoC - the de facto border that divides Indian- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
India and Pakistan have fought three of their four wars over Kashmir, which both claim in full but administer separate portions of.
The air attacks on Tuesday appear to have taken place outside of Kashmir, at least 10km inside the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Indian soldiers examine the debris after the deadly explosion in Pulwama [File: Younis Khaliq/Reuters]
Pakistan's military did not confirm the location of the incident, offering conflicting reports that at first placed it near the town of Balakot, about 12km from Jaba, and later claimed it occurred within the confines of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Tensions between the South Asian neighbours have been high since February 14, when a suicide attacker killed at least 42 Indian security personnel in the Indian-administered Kashmir town of Pulwama.
Raids in Kashmir
Meanwhile, Indian security forces have conducted raids on the houses of four senior Kashmiri separatist leaders, including chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik.
Kashmiri civilians say they have been seeing heavy troop deployment, fuel shortages and frequent Indian security forces raids since the Pulwama attack.
"The cost of war might not be known in the TV studios, but we have already borne the burnt of the long conflict. Now, it seems the only option left for us is quick devastation or slow devastation," said 65-year-old Bashir Ahmad Pal, a resident of Baramulla, a frontier town in northern Indian-administered Kashmir.
India has threatened Pakistan with military action repeatedly since the February 14 blast, blaming it for "controlling" the attack. Pakistan-based armed group JeM had claimed the attack.
Pakistan denies any role in the attack, and last week Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asked India for "actionable intelligence" in order to take action against any JeM operatives in Pakistan.
Pakistan has reiterated its right to self-defence.
"This is a violation of the Line of Control, and Pakistan reserves the right to a reasonable response and the right to self-defence," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, before a high-level meeting with PM Khan.
Additional reporting by Rifat Fareed from Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA NEWS
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...india-violating-airspace-190226040437318.html
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Pakistan reported the Indian airspace incursion, with military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor saying its air force jets were scrambling to respond, forcing the Indian aircraft to "release [their] payload in haste while escaping".
Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, however, asserted that the jets had hit their target, and that "a very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis who were being trained for fidayeen action were eliminated".
"The government of India is firmly and resolutely committed to taking all necessary measures to fight the menace of terrorism," he told reporters in New Delhi. "Hence this non-military pre-emptive action was specifically targeted at the Jaish-e-Mohammed camp."
C Uday Bhaskar, the director of the Society for Policy Studies based in New Delhi, said: "India has sent a very firm signal."
"The fact that air power has been used for the first time against a terrorist target to my mind signalled to Pakistan that India is demonstrating resolve in terms of using military power, particularly air power," he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with his top government officials in New Delhi where he was briefed about the predawn air attack.
Hour later, speaking at an election rally in the western state of Rajasthan, Modi said "the country is in safe hands", avoiding direct reference to the air raids.
"I pledge on this soil, ... I will not let the country bend."
Al Jazeera's Faiz Jamil, reporting from New Delhi, said that the Indian government has been under a lot of pressure to act in the wake of the Kashmir attack.
"This attack was expected and one of the reasons it was delayed was the visit of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the region," Jamil said.
"But everyone did expect that this would somehow happen sometime soon, especially with [general] elections coming up in April."
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Indian Air Force violated Line of Control. Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back. Details to follow.
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Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open.
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A special meeting of the National Security Committee chaired by the Prime Minister Imran Khan was held at his office on Tuesday.
The meeting was attended by Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Finance, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and other civil and military officials.
"Forum strongly rejected Indian claim of targeting an alleged terrorist camp near Balakot and the claim of heavy casualties. Once again, Indian government has resorted to a self-serving, reckless and fictitious claim," the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
"Forum concluded that India has committed uncalled for aggression to which Pakistan shall respond at the time and place of its choosing."
Hassan Akbar, director at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute think-tank, termed the strikes "a very provocative and aggressive action by India, irrespective of whether any infrastructure was destroyed or anyone was killed or injured".
"They did drop payload in various sectors including in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and this constitutes a serious violation of Pakistan's airspace and sovereignty."
Akbar said Pakistan's response could range from hitting Indian artillery positions along the Line of Control to taking "a more escalatory position" and launching similar airstrikes on Indian military targets.
Sounds of aircraft
Local residents and journalists in Pakistan told Al Jazeera that the sounds of aircraft and an explosion were heard in the Jaba area of Mansehra district, located about 60km from the LoC - the de facto border that divides Indian- and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
India and Pakistan have fought three of their four wars over Kashmir, which both claim in full but administer separate portions of.
The air attacks on Tuesday appear to have taken place outside of Kashmir, at least 10km inside the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Indian soldiers examine the debris after the deadly explosion in Pulwama [File: Younis Khaliq/Reuters]
Pakistan's military did not confirm the location of the incident, offering conflicting reports that at first placed it near the town of Balakot, about 12km from Jaba, and later claimed it occurred within the confines of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Tensions between the South Asian neighbours have been high since February 14, when a suicide attacker killed at least 42 Indian security personnel in the Indian-administered Kashmir town of Pulwama.
Raids in Kashmir
Meanwhile, Indian security forces have conducted raids on the houses of four senior Kashmiri separatist leaders, including chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Yasin Malik.
Kashmiri civilians say they have been seeing heavy troop deployment, fuel shortages and frequent Indian security forces raids since the Pulwama attack.
"The cost of war might not be known in the TV studios, but we have already borne the burnt of the long conflict. Now, it seems the only option left for us is quick devastation or slow devastation," said 65-year-old Bashir Ahmad Pal, a resident of Baramulla, a frontier town in northern Indian-administered Kashmir.
India has threatened Pakistan with military action repeatedly since the February 14 blast, blaming it for "controlling" the attack. Pakistan-based armed group JeM had claimed the attack.
Pakistan denies any role in the attack, and last week Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asked India for "actionable intelligence" in order to take action against any JeM operatives in Pakistan.
Pakistan has reiterated its right to self-defence.
"This is a violation of the Line of Control, and Pakistan reserves the right to a reasonable response and the right to self-defence," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, before a high-level meeting with PM Khan.
Additional reporting by Rifat Fareed from Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA NEWS
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...india-violating-airspace-190226040437318.html
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Reuters report exposes Indian claims of major destruction
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An eyewitness has exposed Indian claims of major destruction inside Pakistan.
Talking to Reuters news agency, he said that they heard four loud bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by bomb shards.
“We saw trees fallen down and one house damaged and four craters where the bombs had fallen,” said Mohammad Ajmal, a 25-year-old who visited the site.
The Pakistan Air Force thwarted an early morning incursion into its airspace Tuesday by Indian fighter aircraft, forcing them to flee, the military spokesman said.
The Indian aircraft intruded from Muzafarabad sector, Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet at 6:36 am.
He said the "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" forced the intruding aircraft to "release payload in haste while escaping, which fell near BalakotSector (Azad Kashmir)."
Pictures released by the Director General Inter Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor show a burnt out steep mountain side with no sign of any damage to any property, apart from a few burnt out pine trees.
A few shards of metal were scattered around in the charred grass.
The incursion into the Pakistan air space follows a series of threats by Indian political and military leadership following the attack on an Indian Army convoy at Pulwama by a local youth, in reaction to the oppression unleashed by the occupation force
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An eyewitness has exposed Indian claims of major destruction inside Pakistan.
Talking to Reuters news agency, he said that they heard four loud bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by bomb shards.
“We saw trees fallen down and one house damaged and four craters where the bombs had fallen,” said Mohammad Ajmal, a 25-year-old who visited the site.
The Pakistan Air Force thwarted an early morning incursion into its airspace Tuesday by Indian fighter aircraft, forcing them to flee, the military spokesman said.
The Indian aircraft intruded from Muzafarabad sector, Major General Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet at 6:36 am.
He said the "timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force" forced the intruding aircraft to "release payload in haste while escaping, which fell near BalakotSector (Azad Kashmir)."
Pictures released by the Director General Inter Services Public Relations Major General Asif Ghafoor show a burnt out steep mountain side with no sign of any damage to any property, apart from a few burnt out pine trees.
A few shards of metal were scattered around in the charred grass.
The incursion into the Pakistan air space follows a series of threats by Indian political and military leadership following the attack on an Indian Army convoy at Pulwama by a local youth, in reaction to the oppression unleashed by the occupation force
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Priyanka singh enough said
Indian writers are reliable sources on Pakistan?
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Full war on cards..
Heavy movement of troops on pakistani side..
Heavy movement of troops on pakistani side..
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Yra we are a peace loving secular liberal republic just like Bangladesh. We have given the formulation of our national narrative to the elite of this country, the same elite whose children are studying in western universities. We shouldn't expect much from this liberal burger elite. Our politicians, generals, bureaucrats and media are the part of this elite. They will try their best to deescalate the situation by resorting to mere lip service.
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Googling ? Is this the best you have come up in order to prove your point ? We know more about Balakot than you Indians. For your information, entire town was destroyed after 2005 earthquake so now it is mostly used as tourist stop over in order to reach Narraan and higher places.
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I want a laugh react for this.
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Lets see what happens. But I am optimistic that response would be given.
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kindly share source.
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Pak have decided to response to this act of war from indian side :FM
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Lets hope that they will man up.
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