After External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj acknowledged that no civilian or soldier was killed in the Balakot attack, Pakistan Army took a jibe at India on Thursday saying New Delhi should also take back its claim about the shooting down of a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet and the 2016 surgical strike.
The statement by army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor came hours after Swaraj said that no Pakistani soldier or civilian died in the air strike on a terror camp at Balakot in Pakistan in February.TRENDING NEWS
Swaraj while addressing a women workers of BJP said that the Indian military was given a “free hand” in the operation but was clearly told that no Pakistani civilian should be killed and also there be “not even a scratch” on the Pakistani army.
“Your target should is those ‘terrorists’ of JeM which had taken responsibility for killing 40 persons in Pulwama,” she said.
