Surgical strikes video out, shows army destroying terror camps in PoK

June 28, 2018 09:10

For the first time since India announced that it had carried out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir in September 2016, video clips of these operations have surfaced.

The Indian army had conducted surgical strikes against terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on the night of September 28-29, 2016, days after the terror strike by Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad on an Indian army camp in Uri in Kashmir in which 19 jawans were martyred.

The video clips showed some terrorists being killed, besides destruction of bunkers and other military constructions.

TV channels claimed that these videos were taken by unmanned aerial vehicles and thermal imaging cameras used by the army to monitor the operation.

"The videos are real. I can confirm that," Lt General D S Hooda (retd), former Northern Army Commander who was directly in-charge of the surgical strikes told The Indian Express.

"When the surgical strikes happened, my view was that the videos should have been released as proof. It is good that they have come out now," Lt General Hooda added.

The officers and men of the army's 4 and 9 Special Forces battalions, who had taken part in the surgical strikes, were later awarded gallantry medals by the government.

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