By: Eastern Eye Staff
INDIA said this morning (29) that it had conducted “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan. The cross-border action inflicted “significant casualties”, the Indian army’s head of operations told reporters in New Delhi. It was not immediately clear whether they involved any incursion by Indian troops across the Line of Control that runs through Kashmir. Pakistan’s military said two of its soldiers had been killed in what it called “cross-border fire” while its Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned what…
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