Tuesday, 26 February 2019
The fog after the Balakot airstrike: What we know, what we don't
India didn't "cross the LOC". It has attacked Pakistan," he tweeted.It is unclear if the jets crossed Azaad Kashmir. Pakistan defence officials said the Indian jets violated the Line of Control. Gokhale's statement did not suggest that the aircraft entered Pakistani air space. Some Indian Opposition leaders seemed impressed by the Balakot strike. Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi tweeted: "If IAF penetrated that deep without casualties it's a highly successful mission." There is already some gathering fog on casualties that Gokhale mentioned in the morning news conference on Tuesday. While the ministry of defence and the Indian Air Force have been completely silent till afternoon on the operation, a Reuters that is datelined Balakot said one villager was injured. According to the report, Pakistani villagers in the area where Indian jets struck, what officials in New Delhi said was a militant training camp, said 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, told Reuters. https://twitter.com/DrAMSinghvi/status/1100236070950625280 Khyber PakhtunkhwaBalakot is in the Mansehra district of this province, where Imran Khan's political outfit Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is the largest in presence. In 2013, the now Pakistan Prime Minister had defeated all mainstream political parties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.PTI has overwhelming presence in the province's Assembly, with82 seats of the total 124.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to Pakistani media reports, is synonymous with terrorism in India's neighbourhood. In November 2018, Pakistani newspaper The Dawn reported that a total of 28 terror attacks had happened in Pakistan the previous month. Of these, 14 attacks were in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Abbottabad, where Osama Bin Laden was holed up and later eliminated in an operation, is also in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.Peshawar is the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is also where on December 16, 2014, six Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan gunmen entered an army school and killed 149 people. Of them, 139 were schoolchildren. National Conference leader Omar Abdullah listed the firsts in the airstrike. https://twitter.com/OmarAbdullah/status/1100281500438810624 https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100034498543185920 https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100179216375693318 But his tweets on Monday also indicated that Pakistan was expecting some action from the Indian side. What has formally come out from both sides so faris that an Indian airstrike did happen in Balakot early on Tuesday. "Large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders were eliminated," Gokhale said in the news conference. But that has not been corroborated by any other source from anywhere yet.Government sources have told PTI that a fleet of Mirage 2000s conducted the attack.Some Indian news outlets have claimed that Maulana Yusuf Azhar, the brother-in-law of Maulana Masood Azhar who ran the terror camp that was targeted, was killed in the strike. https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100207947022565377 Pakistani media covered the operation differently. Most media outlets gave out the tweets of Major General Asif Ghafoor, the DG of Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations. Ghafoor, who tweeted minutes after the attack, suggested that Indian jets dropped the payload and turned back after Pakistani jets scrambled. Dailyhunthttps://www.aeriagames.com/user/tussadusmed/
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