Pakistan's Prime Minister promises to retaliate after India launches airstrikes on an alleged terrorist training camp
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has promised to retaliate against India after it conducted airstrikes on an alleged terrorist training camp across the Line of Control , the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed Kashmir region, in a significant escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear armed powers.
in Pulwama in Indian administered Kashmir that killed 40 Indian paramilitary soldiers on February 14. Harsh V. Pant, a professor in international relations at King's College London, told CNN that for the past few decades the Indian government had chosen not to retaliate after terror attacks in Kashmir.A spokesman for the Pakistan Armed Forces tweeted that Indian military aircraft crossed into Pakistan airspace, but were driven back.
Indian aircrafts intruded from Muzafarabad sector. Facing timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force released payload in haste while escaping which fell near Balakot. No casualties or damage.In a statement released Tuesday, India said"a very large number" of militants were"eliminated" in the operation. It said the alleged camp was a military training facility headed by Maulana Yousuf Azhar, the brother-in-law of Masood Azhar -- the chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Tuesday's movement of Indian Air Force planes across the de facto border between the two countries is the first such instance since the India-Pakistan war in 1971, Pant said.India has previously claimed Pakistan had a"direct hand" in the Pulwama bombing.
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