TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ India on Saturday said its non-military strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed camp in Pakistan achieved its desired objective and demonstrated the country’s firm resolve to take decisive action against cross border terrorism.
Ministry of External affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, at a media briefing, also said that an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison, piloted by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, shot down a Pakistan Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft and there were eyewitness accounts and electronic evidence for it.
“We have also shared evidence in the form of parts of AMRAAM missile which were recovered from the site and are only carried by F-16 aircraft of the PAF,” he said. “Our non-military counter-terrorism strike achieved the desired objective.
It has demonstrated our firm resolve to take
decisive action against cross border terrorism,” he said. Only one
aircraft was lost by India during Pakistan’s unsuccessful attempt at targeting
Indian military installations, he said.
