India’s already suspect ‘surgical strikes’ claims have been rendered completely bogus after Secretary General UN, Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has also repudiated them.
The PAF in its statement said that Pakistan Air Force was always on guard to respond any external aggression in a strong and befitting manner.
“Aerial boundaries of the motherland shall continue to be guarded at all costs” and no bid to cast an evil eye will let go unnoticed, it added.
India said on Thursday it had conducted “surgical strikes” on so-called militants preparing to infiltrate from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan.
This quest by Indian establishment to create media hype by rebranding cross-border fire as the surgical strike is a fabrication of the truth,” the ISPR said and added, “Pakistan has made it clear that if there is a surgical strike on Pakistani soil, same will be strongly responded.”
The latest episode in already simmering Pakistan-India relations is a so-called “surgical strike” – an Indian claim made soon after two Pakistani soldiers were killed at the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmir as reported Thursday.
With the Pakistani military rejecting that the episode was a result of a "surgical strike", the media in both countries is now hotly debating the terminology.
“A surgical strike is one that comes as a surprise and is conducted with surgical efficiency. It happens when an entity does the job and comes out. It is not messy. There is no collateral damage,” said Mr Chaudhry.
“On another level, sometimes what happens is that there is knowledge of the strike but an inability to respond.”
Referring to the incident today, Mr Chaudhry said, “What India has done today is an LoC violation. Not a surgical strike.”
