February 26, 2019:

Today, the Indian Air Force strikes across LoC Pakistan; has struck the JeM terror camps at around 3:30 am. Strikes hit multiple targets in Balakot, Chakothi and Muzaffarabad.

Eleven days after a Jaish-e-Muhammed suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a bus ferrying CRPF jawans in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, the Indian Air Force, today morning crossed the Line of Control and carried out aerial strikes at multiple targets.

At least 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in the worst attack on the security forces in Pulwama on February 14. The Pakistan-based JeM had claimed responsibility for the gruesome attack.

Amid calls to take revenge for the Pulwama attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently assured: “Is baar purahisab lenge (We will settle the books in full this time)."

An Indian minister has said that air force jets have struck “terror camps” across the ceasefire line in Kashmir, the first aerial bombing over the disputed border since the country went to war with Pakistan in 1971.

The sources have told an Indian news agency that 12 fighter jets had crossed into Pakistani territory and destroyed a militant training camp.

Pakistan’s armed forces spokesman major-general Asif Ghafoor says that there had been contact between the two countries’ aircraft after a breach by the Indian side.

“Indian Air Force violated Line of Control,” Ghafoor tweeted around 5 a.m local time. “Pakistan Air Force immediately scrambled. Indian aircrafts gone back.”

He added in a tweet two hours later: “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.”

His comments indicate the strike hit a small village called Balakot near the ceasefire border.

Balakot is also the name of a larger city about 50 miles from the border. Significantly, it is the Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, outside the territory that Indian claims as its own.

Indian news agencies quote that the Indian Air Force has claimed that 12 Mirage fighter jets had struck “a major terrorist camp” over the border with 1,000 kg of explosives. The attack took place around 3.30am, on Tuesday morning.

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