India is in safe hands, “I am understanding your josh today” Modi
NEW DELHI : Surgical Strikes 2.0 LIVE Updates: Twelve Indian Force Mirage-2000 jets crossed the Line of Control (LoC) early on Tuesday morning and destroyed terror camps of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot. The air strike, which has been dubbed surgical strikes 2.0, comes two weeks after a terror attack on CRPF solidiers in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a poll rally in Churu, Rajasthan, hours after the strike, Prime Minister Narendra Mod said, “Today I assure the countrymen, India is in safe hands.” He also repeated the BJP’s campaign slogan of 2014 with the message that he won’t let anyone hurt or stop the nation.
Hours after the government confirmed India’s air strikes on terror targets across the Line of Control, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a rally in Rajasthan’s Churu: “I assure you, the country is in safe hands.”
PM Modi also said: “I pledge on this soil, I will not let the country die, I will not let the country stop, I will not let the country bend. It is my promise to Mother India, I will protect your honour.” India carried out “non-military, pre-emptive air strikes” across the Line of Control early this morning to target the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, which was planning more attacks in the country after the one in Pulwama, the government said on Tuesday.
IC 814 hijacker Yousuf Azhar, the brother-in-law of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, was among some 300 terrorists killed in the Indian Air Force strike at around 3.30 am. .Twelve Mirage 2000 fighter jets dropped 1,000 kg bombs on the camp at Balakot, a facility in a thick forest around 80 km from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, which was the hub of training for suicide attackers.
Meanwhile, A debate is underway in Pakistan National Assembly on India’s air strike. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the country holds the right to self-defence and a “befitting response to Indian aggression, after Indian military aircraft violated the Line of Control (LoC) earlier today”. (With Agency Inputs ).
