With Pakistan dismissing Indian claim of surgical strike and going overboard to prove it, the Modi government may take a decision soon on releasing "clinching evidence" of the army operation on terror launchpads based in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
Pakistan launched a media blitzkrieg on Saturday as it ferried a group of 40 journalists, both local and foreign representing about 20 media organisations, to two of the seven places where India claim to have targeted with surgical strikes, The Dawn reported.
In fact, French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) called the ferrying of journalists by air "a rare step" by Pakistan.
"The army took the rare step of flying international media to the de facto border to make its case in a battle of competing narratives," AFP wrote.
All of this to desperately prove to the world that no "signature of any surgical strike"+ could be found and that India's claims were "white lies", as Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa, a spokesman for the Pakistani army, told the journalists, according to Dawn and The News Internationa
Bajwa posed several questions to Indian military about its “surgical strikes” claim and advised the Indian DGMO to be “sure-footed” while making statements on sensitive matters.
Some of the questions he asked were: Where are bodies of people killed in the claimed surgical strikes? Where did the Indians cause damage? How come the troops came and went back unchallenged all in a span of five hours in this difficult terrain?
Responding to a query on doubts raised by Pakistan over the operation alleging that India has not released the footage of the operation, the Home Minister said, "Just wait and watch".
Indian soldiers have displayed their valour to the entire world and made the country proud by the manner in which they carried out 'surgical strikes' against terror launch pads across the Line of Control, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Sunday.
"The country as well as the whole world is aware of this (surgical strikes)..the way our jawans displayed valour have made India proud," Mr Singh told reporters in New Delhi.
On Friday, Army had rubbished media reports in Pakistan about Indian casualties during the operation in which about seven terror launch pads across the Line of Control were targeted.
Army had also said "black propaganda" was being carried out by some Pakistani TV channels showing "morphed" video clips depicting Indian Army casualties.
