Ever since 1971, IAF has crossed LOC for the first time

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE :   Exact 12days after the Pulwama terror attack, India took a bold move in the pre-dawn raid by crossing over Line of Control (LoC) and destroyed the JeM, LeT and Hizbul Mujahideen training camps with the help of 12 Mirage aircraft and dropped 1000 kilograms of bombs on the terror launch pads across the Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).

The countries world over observes extreme caution when they decide to violate a foreign country’s airspace as doing so is considered to be an act of war. Interestingly, the last time IAF crossed the LoC and used the Mirage aircraft was during the 1971 war. Even during the 1999 Kargil war, the IAF had not crossed over to the LoC.

In simple language, India hasn’t just crossed the LOC but has attacked Pakistan as IAF did not just strike sites at Chikoti and Muzaffarabad close to the LoC, it also went in the interiors of Pakistani territory to destroy the terror launch pads at Balakot sector.

Pakistan on Tuesday claimed that IAF fighter jets crossed the LoC and returned after the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) scrambled war planes. Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asif Ghafoor tweeted early Tuesday and Radio

Pakistan claimed that the IAF planes dropped payload in haste before leaving, which fell near Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Hours after the attack, the Indian Army’s official Twitter account tweeted a Hindi poem which says that “If you are docile and polite before the enemy, he may consider you as a coward, the way Kauravas treated Pandavas”.

'क्षमाशील हो रिपु-समक्ष
तुम हुए विनीत जितना ही,
दुष्ट कौरवों ने तुमको
कायर समझा उतना ही।

सच पूछो, तो शर में ही
बसती है दीप्ति विनय की,
सन्धि-वचन संपूज्य उसी का जिसमें शक्ति विजय की।'#IndianArmy#AlwaysReady pic.twitter.com/bUV1DmeNkL

— ADG PI – INDIAN ARMY (@adgpi) February 26, 2019

The poem by Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ was tweeted by Additional Director General, Public Information on its official handle.

The airstrike in Pakistan follows a suicide bombing attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Pulwama on February 14 that killed 40 troopers.