Islamabad: On Thursday, Pakistan rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims of having launched a surgical strike on terrorist camps in Pakistani territory. It said that all the claims were “false” and “baseless”.
Modi was talking at an interactive session at the Central Hall Westminster in London on Wednesday, and he said that Islamabad was informed about the 2016 surgical strike before this was made know to the media.
Pakistan’s Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal told the media about the claims that the surgical strike by the Indian military was a “lie” and “repeating it doesn’t turn it into the truth”.
India asserted that its special forces conducted the surgical strike across the Line of Control (LoC). The Line of Control divides Jammu and Kashmir between the two countries, on 29 September and inflicted heavy causalities on terrorists who were preparing to infiltrate into Indian Kashmir.
In what seems to be a veiled message to Pakistan, Modi said during his speech in London that “antics of those exporting terror and trying to backstab us will not be tolerated” and “they will be answered in a language they understand”.
Spokesperson Faisal said: “Repeating a lie doesn’t turn it into the truth… It is the other way around and India is backing terrorists in Pakistan.
“The whole world knows who the terrorists are and who their head is. Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav is a proof of Indian state-sponsored terrorism,” he said.
In a sharp attack on Pakistan during his speech in London, PM Modi asserted that he would not tolerate those who ‘run an industry of exporting terror and kill innocent Indians’.
“They don’t have the power to fight a war but an attack from behind. This is Modi; he knows how to respond in that language,” he said.
The complete operation was done in secrecy until the Indian army informed by holding a press conference to say that seven terrorist launch pads were targeted up to two kilometres across the LoC and that “scores of terrorists were killed.”
PM Modi also said the operation was implemented “100 per cent as planned”.
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