#NewDelhi : Indian Air Force Fighter jets of the Indian Air Force crossed the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and bombed a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist camp in the first such strike since 1971. Sources said that Mirage 2000 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force launched pre-dawn raids in Balakot, Pakistan, completely destroying the terrorist facility. Officially, the government acknolwedged the cross-border IAF airstrike in a carefully worded statement. India carried out an intelligence-led, non-military, pre-emptive action targetting the biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. Large number of JeM terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis were killed in the attack, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said. Sources put the number of casualities to 300. The cross-border airstrike by the Indian Air Force comes 11 days after the Pulwama terror attack, in which 40 Central Reserve Police jawans were martyred.Bureau Report
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