Pakistan military in a statement said, ‘The notion of surgical strike linked to alleged terrorists’ bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by India to create false effects’.

akistan today said India’s claim of a “surgical strike” across the Line of Control (LoC) was an illusion, saying that the incident was “cross-border fire”.

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“The notion of surgical strike linked to alleged terrorists’ bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by India to create false effects,” the military said in a statement.

This quest by the Indian establishment to create media hype by rebranding cross border fire as surgical strike is fabrication of truth. Pakistan has made it clear that if there is a surgical strike on Pakistani soil, same will be strongly responded,” the statement added.

 

Reacting strongly to reports on surgical strikes by India on Pakistan soil, the statement said: “There has been no surgical strike by India, instead there had been cross-border fire initiated and conducted by India which is existential phenomenon.”

The statement further added, “As per rules of engagement same was strongly and befittingly responded by Pakistani troops.”

The statement was released shortly after DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh said India had hit suspected militants preparing to infiltrate into Kashmir.

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Later, addressing the media, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said, “Indian claims of surgical strikes are a lie. There was an exchange of firing along the LoC which Pakistan Army responded to.”

Pakistan’s military has confirmed that two of its soldiers had been killed in an exchange of fire across the Line of Control.

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