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PAF ready to respond if India conducts surgical strikes

September 29, 2016

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Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Thursday denied that no Indian plane crossed Line of Control (LoC). PAF also denied the nature of the strike.

“This was not a surgical strike (by Indian Army). We are alert for any eventuality,” it said.

PAF further reported that it is ready to strike if India conducts surgical strikes.

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Earlier today,Pakistan Army also rejected Indian Army’s claim of conducting surgical strikes at LoC, minutes after India’s military claimed that it carried out “surgical strikes” along the de facto border with Pakistan in AJK to thwart a series of attacks being planned against major cities.

“Some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the Line of Control,” Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, the army’s director-general of military operations, said in reference to the unofficial border in divided Kashmir.

“The Indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launchpads. Significant casualties have been caused by these terrorists and those who are trying to support them,” he told reporters in New Delhi, adding that he had called his Pakistani counterpart to inform him of the operation.

PAKISTAN RESPONDS

“There has been no surgical strike by India,instead there had been cross-border fire initiated and conducted by India which is an existential phenomenon,” the military’s media wing ISPR said.

“The notion of surgical strike linked to alleged terrorist bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by Indian to create false effects. This quest by Indian establishment to create media hype by rebranding cross-border fire as the surgical strike is a fabrication of the truth. Pakistan has made it clear that if there is a surgical strike on Pakistani soil, same will be strongly responded,” the statement said.

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