{"id":5164,"date":"2016-09-29T13:40:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:10:30","slug":"notion-surgical-strike-fabrication-truth-pakistan-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Notion of Surgical Strike\u2026 Is Fabrication of Truth,\u2019 Pakistan Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar:\u00a0<\/strong>Pakistan on Thursday denied Indian claims of surgical strikes along the Line of Control (LoC) in \u201cAzad\u201d Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross border fire initiated and conducted by India which is existential phenomenon,\u201d the military\u2019s media wing ISPR said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added, \u201cAs per rules of engagement same was strongly and befittingly responded by Pakistani troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe notion of surgical strike linked to alleged militant bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by Indian to create false effects. This quest by Indian establishment to create media hype by re branding cross border fire as surgical strike is fabrication of truth. Pakistan has made it clear that if there is a surgical strike on Pakistani soil, same will be strongly responded,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, India\u2019s defence ministry military claimed it carried out \u201csurgical strikes\u201d along the de facto border with Pakistan in AJK to thwart a series of attacks being planned against major cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome militant teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the Line of Control,\u201d Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, the army\u2019s director-general of military operations, said in reference to the unofficial border in divided Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian army conducted surgical strikes last night at these launch pads. Significant casualties have been caused to these terrorists and those who are trying to support them,\u201d he told reporters in New Delhi, adding that he had called his Pakistani counterpart to inform him of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>Two Pakistan Army soldiers were killed on Thursday as Indian forces resorted to unprovoked firing along the LoC in Bhimber, Kel and Lipa sectors, ISPR claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange of fire took place in the Bhimber, Hot Spring, Kel and Lipa sectors, and lasted about six hours early on Thursday, the Pakistani military\u2019s press wing said in a statement. Pakistani troops mounted a fitting response to unprovoked Indian firing.<\/p>\n<p>India on Thursday announced that air links between Pakistan and India, which including direct flights between the two countries will be decided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar:\u00a0Pakistan on Thursday denied Indian claims of surgical strikes along the Line of Control (LoC) in \u201cAzad\u201d Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cThere has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross border fire initiated and conducted by India which is existential phenomenon,\u201d the military\u2019s media wing ISPR said. The statement added, \u201cAs per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/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=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}