The indian agriculture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Twitter confirms the data from Pakistan about the attack earlier in the day, according to Reuters.
an attack early in the morning on the terror camps on the other side of the loc and destroyed them,” writes the minister.
https://twitter.com/gssjodhpur/status/1100244765529001984
Shortly afterwards, India’s ministry of foreign affairs, the attack, and stated that ”a large number of militants were killed,” writes the AFP. Later stated India that it was about 300.
According to the Pakistan bombing has not led to deaths or damage to infrastructure.
Asif Ghafoor, spokesperson of the pakistani armed forces, brings in a series of Twittermeddelanden a completely different description than that of the indian government of the event.
According to Ghafoor chased pakistani fighter jets off the indian stridsflygplanen, which released the bombs while they fled. They reported to have met the open ground, and it caused either the death or injury of buildings, he writes, among other things.
Pakistan’s national security committee, in which, among others, both the prime minister, Imran Khan and the army chief Qamar Javed included, stated in a statement that it ”vigorously rejects indian claims of having met a terroristläger near Balakot and the claim about the large number of casualties.”
it is also for that Pakistan will respond to the aggression ”at the appropriate time”.
https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100251560985145346
Pakistan has also put out the pictures that reportedly show the place where the bombs fell, in the vicinity of Balakot.
https://twitter.com/OfficialDGISPR/status/1100231826348617728
Flygattacken comes two weeks after the terrorist attack, which claimed 46 indian command lives in Pulwama, on indiskkontrollerat region of Kashmir. After the terror attack, relations between the neighbouring countries India and Pakistan have been very strained. India accuses Pakistan of involvement in the bombing after a Pakistanbaserad terrorist group claimed it.
On Tuesday afternoon put the governments in both New Delhi and Islamabad in the emergency meetings. At the same time, the EU asked India and Pakistan to act with restraint after indian fighter jets have flown over the so-called line of control in the disputed Kashmir and attacked what India calls for terror camps on the pakistani side.
“We have been in contact with both countries and what we consider to be most important is that all the parties to take maximum restraint and avoid further escalation of tension,” says Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for EU utrikeschef Federica Mogherini, to the AFP news agency.
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