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IAF air strike ‘grave aggression by India, violation of LoC’: Pak vows to retaliate

The Pakistan foreign minister had called a high-level emergency meeting earlier on Tuesday for consultation with former foreign secretaries and senior diplomats hours after the IAF carried out air strikes across the LoC.

IAF air strike ‘grave aggression by India, violation of LoC’: Pak vows to retaliate

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (Photo: Twitter | @pid_gov)

Scrambling to find ground after the Indian Air Force carried out pre-dawn air strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control on Tuesday, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said, “clouds of danger were hovering over the country and that it has to remain alert”.

“I have already said that I don’t want to mislead the public. Clouds of danger are hovering over us and we will have to remain alert,” Pakistan’s Samaa TV quoted Qureshi as saying.

Qureshi further said the offensive was “grave aggression by India against Pakistan”, adding that the action was a violation of LoC and Pakistan has the right to retaliate and self-defence”.

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“Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned India not to challenge Pakistan. Pakistan is fully prepared to respond to any misadventure,” tweeted official twitter account of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

The minister said “better sense should prevail in India”, according to a statement cited by Radio Pakistan, after 12 Mirage 2000 jets carried out the strike at around 3.30 am and dropped 1000 Kg bombs on terror camps across LoC, completely destroying it.

Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) control rooms were also reportedly destroyed.

The Pakistan foreign minister had called a high-level emergency meeting earlier on Tuesday for consultation with former foreign secretaries and senior diplomats hours after the IAF carried out air strikes across the LoC.

According to media reports, the IAF strike has led to 200-300 casualties on the Pakistani side.

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The air strike comes amid heightened tension between India and Pakistan following the 14 February suicide attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir in which 44 jawans were killed. Pakistan-based and supported terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Soon after the attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said security forces had been given a free hand to avenge the act.

India also withdrew the ‘Most Favoured Nation’ status given to Pakistan in 1996 and also hiked tariff on imports from Pakistan by 200 per cent.

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