it called a terrorist camp inside of pakistan indian media say that up to three hundred people may have been killed in this raid and it is the first time in many years that indian warplanes have crossed what is known as the line of control dividing the contesting kashmir region and pakistan acknowledged that india violated its airspace but denied reports of casualties tensions have been growing since kashmiri separatists killed forty indian soldiers two weeks ago the indian foreign secretary says that delhi acted on credible intelligence that pakistan based militants were plotting more attacks across india in the face of. a preemptive strike became absolutely necessary in an intelligence led operation in the early hours of today india struck the biggest training camp of the just a moment in balakot in this operation a very large number of gentian
elo sea however this time they have not only crossed the elysee beyond pakistan but i ve been astonished me but they ve actually gone into pakistani territory which is what makes this significant back in twenty sixteen when a similar attack on indian security forces led to the loss of nineteen lives all of indian soldiers india also had claimed that had gathered out a surgical strike that in that incident also it had crossed the elysee but it was believed that it was only it only went as far as fox funnel could by this means that this is one of the deepest attacks that india may have got about and of course this is something that is being congratulated here in india but for the action of course is dependent on how exactly pakistan reacts and how india decided stick this forward to and even times perhaps you can weigh in when we talk about this because i mean another. factor perhaps here is that we also have a new prime minister also there in pakistan just talk with us you know about th
a moment that exists does see the commandos and groups of jihad these who are being treated for free they would eliminate to. and the pakistani foreign minister issued a warning to india not to challenge his country he called india s action and aggression against pakistan any violation of the line of control he said that pakistan reserved the right to an appropriate response in itself to families. of the war on the story i m joined now by political analyst. in islam about and correspondent. is standing by in delhi and the mission i d like to begin with you and just get a sense of how significant these strikes are. well it s a lot of the significance of this these tribes had just primarily on the attack that happened in fish feed on february fourteenth less than two weeks ago forty indian security forces lost their lives in the dead attack and ever since then the country
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government is concerned the army operational consent they re denying they re denying the kind of damages that india is claiming from these aerial strikes ok so you think a centrally a measured response here but the nimish i mean the reality is that there have been escalating tensions but tween these two countries just put this into context for us because there is a long history here of course. well i thought it was is the creation of india and pakistan fish meat has been a flashpoint between the cooper two countries as i ve mentioned two wars have been fought over box but what a fight over kashmir excuse me but what is truly significant about this particular strike is that india if it did carry out a strike in the location where it says a did crossed the line of control another line of control of the defacto line the drones between india adn the stood bushmeat and pakistan of mr bush me and even back when the last war over happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety and the kargil war