New Delhi: As the Prime Minister addressed Indian diaspora in London, he found an opportunity to talk about surgical strikes of India on Pakistan. India waited for an hour to first inform Pakistan about the operation that was launched in 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while addressing the audience filled with Indians.

India conducted out some strikes across the Line of Control in the night of September 28 and 29 which resulted in heavy casualties on terrorists who were trying to infiltrate from terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

“Since 11 in the morning, we were trying to contact them over the phone, but they were afraid and wouldn’t take our call. I had instructed our officers to tell the Pakistani army that we did it. We did not hide it. At noon, they answered the call. We told them,” said PM Modi answering a question at a townhall called ‘Bharat ki Baat, Sabke Saath’.

The strikes were targeted against the terrorists after they attacked an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri, killing at least 19 jawans.

“Some cowards attacked and killed our jawans who were sleeping in tents. Will anyone of you want me to remain silent? Shouldn’t such an act be answered in stronger terms?” the Prime Minister said to applause from the gathering.

In a sharp attack on Pakistan, 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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