As we had reported earlier, the Pakistani Army has claimed that the Indian Air Force had entered Pakistani territory and reached as far as Balakot, a town in Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It has also been claimed that India may have conducted a two-pronged kinetic action in air and ground as said by Defence Analyst Nitin Gokhale on Twitter.
Now, ANI has quoted sources to report that 12 Mirage jets took part in the Operation and bombs weighing 1000 kgs each were dropped on terror camps across the Line of Control, destroying them utterly.
IAF Sources: 12 Mirage 2000 jets took part in the operation that dropped 1000 Kg bombs on terror camps across LOC, completely destroying it pic.twitter.com/BP3kIrboku
— ANI (@ANI) February 26, 2019
The Operation occurred at 3.30 a.m. in the morning, according to sources as reported by ANI.
IAF Sources: At 0330 hours on 26th February a group of Mirage 2000 Indian Fighter jets struck a major terrorist camp across the LoC
and completely destroyed it. pic.twitter.com/RlxTJ4e3AF— ANI (@ANI) February 26, 2019
According to Pakistani media, if India dropped payload in Balakot as claimed by Pakistan, then India did not merely cross the LOC. The Indian Armed Force went farther than Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and attacked Pakistani territory.
Just to be clear: #Balakot is not in Azad Kashmir.
If Indian Air Force planes dropped payload in Balakot, they crossed across the LOC, and then across the entirety of Azad Kashmir, and then into Khyber Pakhtukhwa.
India didn’t “cross the LOC”.
It has attacked Pakistan.
— Mosharraf Zaidi (@mosharrafzaidi) February 26, 2019
Now, reports have emerged which say that the IAF has destroyed Control rooms and launch pads of Jaish-e-Muhammad in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chakothi.
Indian Air Force (IAF) apparently has destroyed Alpha 3 Control rooms and launch pads of Jaish-e-Muhammad in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chakothi. Was wondering if someone could have live tweeted this just like the Bin Laden raid. C’mon!
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) February 26, 2019
The Indian Government is reported to be assessing the damage and is expected to make a statement shortly.
