A Pakistan police officer has admitted that India indeed carried out surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and killed at least five soldiers and several terrorists in an operation that Islamabad denies, news channel CNN News18 reported on Wednesday.


Ghulam Akbar, the Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) of the Mirpur Range in Paksitani Kashmir, told the network that the strikes took place at many sectors on the early hours of September 29.The report said on Wednesday that one of its journalists, Manoj Gupta, posed as Inspector General of Police Mushtaq while speaking to Akbar over telephone.


The channel aired excerpts of the conversation, quoting Akbar as saying that he personally knew about the strikes.


The Indian operation, he said, occurred at Samana in Bhimber, Hazira in Poonch, Dudhniyal in Neelam and Kayani in Hathian Bala, the border sectors on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control (LoC).


Akbar said the Pakistan Army cordoned off all these areas immediately after the Indian incursion.


"Sir, it was night... you can say roughly 3-4 hours... between 2 am and 4 or 5 a.m... The attack continued between that time," he said."There were attacks on separate places... Several places were attacked... They also met (with) resistance," Akbar said.


Akbar also said that the Pakistan Army was caught unawares by the Indian attack and lost five soldiers. The channel said it had the names of the killed Pakistani soldiers but did not reveal them.