Amid airstrike between India and Pakistan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that if US can conduct an operation in Abbottabad, then India can also do that.
Earlier, India shot down Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 fighter jet after an airspace violation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera sector on Wednesday morning. The fighter jet was shot down in Indian retaliatory fire 3 KM within Pakistan territory in Lam valley, Nowshera sector, news agency ANI.
Finance minister @ArunJaitley
: A week is too long a time for any country. If you look at last 24 hours, one week would appear to be a day. The kind of things we see, I remember when the US Navy SEALs had taken Osama Bin Laden from Abbottabad (Pakistan),then can’t we do the same? pic.twitter.com/nqjAVVCuH1— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) February 27, 2019
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Finance Minister @arunjaitley : This used to be just an imagination, a desire, a frustration, a disappointment. But today this is possible. https://t.co/ka19U5dFvW
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) February 27, 2019
India shot down Pakistan’s F-16 aircraft on Wednesday after it violated the Indian airspace in the Nowshera sector. Pakistan confirmed this and the aim was to demonstrate our right, will and capability for self-defence.
On Tuesday, India carried out a pre-emptive, non-military strike on the biggest Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp located in Balakot in Pakistan. Many JeM leaders and trainers were eliminated in the strike. This was twelve days after a CRPF convoy of 78 vehicles was attacked by a suicide car bomb, taking the life of 40 personnel.
The government did not reveal the details, but reports said that in the wee hours of Tuesday, a group of Mirage 2000 Indian fighter jets struck a major terrorist camp across the LoC and completely destroyed it, reported ANI quoting Indian Air Force sources. The strikes at Balakot, which 40 km from Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is believed to have killed 300 terrorists. Pakistan said it will retaliate.