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India bombs Jaish camp in Pakistan’s Balakot
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- Twelve days after the Pulwama attack, the Indian Air Force bombed the Jaish-e-Mohammad’s “biggest” terror-training camp in Pakistan’s Balakot.
- The operation was carried out by 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets, which unleashed five one-tonne bombs on the camp, based 70 km inside the LoC, in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakthunkhwa.
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- Crowded facility: Intelligence inputs said the JeM facility was particularly crowded with 200-325 militants as many had abandoned launch pads and training camps closer to the LoC after the Pulwama attack in the expectation that India would not target Balakot.
- Major shift in counter-terror responses: The aerial attack on a target inside Pakistani territory marks a major shift in India’s counter-terror responses, which have thus far been restricted to ground operations across the LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
- Non-military, pre-emptive counter-terror operation: The government said it was a “non-military, pre-emptive” counter-terror operation against imminent threats from the JeM.
- Major threat elimination: A very large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis, who were being trained for fidayeen action, were eliminated” in the operation.
- Significant shift:(1) The use of air power is significant as it is the first time since the 1971 war that the IAF crossed over and struck inside Pakistani territory.(2) Even during the Kargil conflict, th eIAF was under strict instructions to not cross the LoC.
Source
The Hindu