ISLAMABAD – The Cross LoC attack was celebrated in India, but it wasunclear on Tuesday whether anything significant had been struck by thefighter jets, The Guardian has reported.
It further said it’s unclear whether the operation had been carefullycalibrated to ease popular anger over the 14 February suicide bombingwithout drawing a major Pakistani reprisal.
India has carried out aerial bombing over the disputed border in Kashmirfor the first time since it went to war with Pakistan in 1971, escalatingtensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
The country’s foreign secretary, Vijay Gokhale, said in a briefing thatDelhi had received credible intelligence that the militant groupJaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), which killed Indian soldiers in a suicide bombingthis month, was training fighters for similar attacks at the site.
“In the face of imminent danger, a pre-emptive strike became absolutelynecessary,” Gokhale said.
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Pakistan, which was the first to announce the incursion, said the warplanes made it up to five miles inside its territory before they wererebuffed, dropping their payloads without casualties or damage.
Pakistan’s armed forces spokesman, Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor, tweeted on Tuesdaymorning that the Indian jets had dropped their bombs in an empty forestedarea. “No infrastructure got hit, no casualties,” he wrote.
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