{"id":5156,"date":"2016-09-29T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T07:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T07:52:34","slug":"india-conducts-surgical-strikes-across-loc-says-defence-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"India Conducts Surgical Strikes Across LoC,\u2019 says Defence Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SRINAGAR:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIndia conducted surgical strikes last night across the LoC (Line of Control) to safeguard our nation, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Significant casualties have been caused to militants and those trying to shield them. We don\u2019t have a plan to further conduct such strikes. India has spoken to Pakistan,\u201d DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were launch pads across the LoC where militants were present waiting to infiltrate the nation and attack areas in Kashmir and metros across the country,\u201d the DGMO said.<\/p>\n<p>No Indian casualties occurred during the surgical strikes that were carried out last night by the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have recovered items including GPS which have Pakistani markings. Captured militants hailing from PaK or Pakistan have confessed to their training in Pakistan or in Pakistan controlled region,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to the Pak DGMO, shared our concerns and told him that we conducted surgical strikes last night: DGMO Singh said.<\/p>\n<p>The press conference was jointly conducted by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistan, in a statement issued has said: At least two Army men were killed as Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire over the Line of Control in \u201cAzad Jammu and Kashmir\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange of fire began at 2:30am, ISPR said, and continued till 8:00am. \u201cPakistani troops befittingly responded to Indian unprovoked firing on the LoC in Bhimber, Hotspring Kel and Lipa sectors,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security to discuss the ceasefire violations along the Line of Control.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the meeting were Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, NSA Ajit Doval, and Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar.<\/p>\n<p>(The news story\u00a0first appeared in <em>The Indian Express<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR:\u00a0\u201cIndia conducted surgical strikes last night across the LoC (Line of Control) to safeguard our nation, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Significant casualties have been caused to militants and those trying to shield them. We don\u2019t have a plan to further conduct such strikes. India has spoken to Pakistan,\u201d DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}