Abbottabad, where India conducted airstrikes in Pakistan, as readers may be aware, is the same place where Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding by the United States of America.
Latest updates from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Churu, Rajasthan. Rally is happening on a day India struck Pakistan inside their territory.
MEA further added that strike by India took place on a hilltop in a forested location in Pakistan far from civilian areas and the JeM camp was run by Maulana Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghauri, brother in law of JeM Chief Masood Azhar.
The initial tweet was made at 7.24 a.m., then in an act of apparent damage control, it was deleted and then the Pakistani establishment version of events was tweeted from the same handle.
The Indian Air Force reaching Balakot indicates that the IAF went beyond Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and entered Pakistani territory to carry air strikes. It is located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Reportedly, 12 Mirage jets took part in the Operation and 1000 Kg of bombs were dropped on terror camps across the Line of Control, destroying them utterly.
At 7:06 AM, the Pakistan Army spokesperson tweeted that Indian aircrafts intruded from Muzaffarabad sector. He claimed that IAF "released payload" in haste "which fell near Balakot".