Photo courtesy screen grab from the video released by the Indian Army.
Ajay Banerjee
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 23
The Indian Army on Tuesday said it had carried out ‘punitive fire assaults’ across the Line of Control (LoC) at Pakistan Army posts to target locations aiding infiltration of terrorists into India.The 749 km LoC divides the state of J&K between India and Pakistan. The Army targeted the Pakistani posts in Naushera sector.
The Congress party backed the Army action on Pakistani posts across the LoC. Spokesperson Randeep Surjewala saluted the valour of jawans.
(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Maj General Ashok Narula, Additional Director General of Public interface, a wing under the military intelligence, said as a part of the counter insurgency operations a punitive fire assault has been launched.
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Congress backs Army action, but questions video releasePak rejects India’s claims of destroying its posts along LoCPakistan Army has been helping the infiltrators by firing at Indian Army positions and even targeting Indian villages in the proximity of Line of Control.Operations like the one at Naugam in J&K where four terrorists were neutrallised on May 21 calls for more proactive action, said Maj General Narula indicating a shift in strategy – that is immediate public announcement of a punitive military action.Also importantly, this is the first time that the Army released a video of the fire assault destroying a Pakistan Army post across Naushera in J&K. Maj General Narula said as part of our counter-terrorism strategy and to ensure that infiltration is curbed and the initiative remains with the Indian Army which dominates the LoC, “Locations aiding terrorist are being targeted and destroyed to deny an advantage to terrorists,” said Maj Gen Narula.The Indian Army had used this fire assault strategy in October and also in November last year.
