EAM Jaishankar made the remark while addressing the Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lecture 2024 on 'Bharat and the World' at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The ties between India and Pakistan came under severe strain after India's warplanes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist training camp in Balakot in Pakistan on February 26, 2019, in response to the Pulwama terror attack.
Ajay Bisaria, who served as the Indian High Commissioner to Islamabad, also discloses that India was prepared to send an Indian Air Force aircraft to Pakistan for the repatriation of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, but the Pakistani government denied permission.
The airstrike was the first time since the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, wherein Indian warplanes had crossed the Line of Control and destroyed Pakistan terror camps.
According to Pompeo, the incident occurred on February 27–28, 2019, while he was in Hanoi for the US–North Korea Summit, and his staff spent the night working with both New Delhi and Islamabad to defuse this crisis.
The Modi government handled Pakistan with an iron fist by conducting two operations -- Surgical Strike in 2016 and Balakot Air Strike in 2019 against terror launch pads in response to Uri and Pulwana terror attacks.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath saluted the extraordinary valour of 'Indian Air Force' and said that these soldiers will always be remembered with pride.
Abhinandan’s Vir Chakra citation mentions that despite the enemy’s“immense numerical and technological superiority,” Wing Commander Varthaman proceeded to courageously engage the enemy aircraft package with utter disregard to his personal safety.'
Varthaman was recently promoted to the rank of Group Captain. He shot down a Pakistani F-16 fighter aircraft during aerial combat on February 27 a day after the Balakot airstrike.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a long-range precision strike against a practice target to mark the second anniversary of the Balakot Operation on Saturday.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out a long-range precision strike against a practice target to mark the second anniversary of the Balakot Operation on Saturday.
The strikes were undertaken days after 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in a terror attack in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14.
The news, on the basis of information shared by ANI, was put out by several media outlets. However, fact check of the statement by the former diplomat confirmed that it was wrongly attributed to him.
Former IAF chief BS Dhanoa said that Pakistan could not carry out any major terror attack against India after the Balakot incident because it was aware that any misadventure would invite retaliation.
Army Chief General MM Naravane attended the Indian Army International Seminar with the theme 'Changing Characteristics of Land Warfare and Its Impact on the Military' in Delhi.
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