Whenever Balakot Airstrike is mentioned, every Indian gets proud and proud of his soldiers. Balakot air strike completed one year on Wednesday. On 29 February 2019, India took major action before the demolition destroyed the largest camp of Pakistan-based terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed in which many terrorists and their trainers were killed. Pakistan had sent these terrorists to this camp for their safety after the Pulwama terror attack. It was carried out in less than two minutes. This attack by the Indian Air Force was extremely quick and accurate. This counterattack to India is considered revenge for the Pulwama attack. Twelve days earlier, on 14 February 2019, 40 CRPF personnel were killed in the Pulwama attack.
The attack was not carried out on a military base, only on a terrorist base, and was carried out as a ‘precaution’ with the aim of ‘preventing attacks’. This hideout was situated on a hill in the forest and was built in the five-star resort-style. Due to this, it became an ‘easy target’ and the terrorists were put to death in their sleep. The camp was located in Balakot. The reference was to the city in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, located about 80 km from the Line of Control and close to Abbottabad where US forces piled Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011. Air Force planes used several laser-guided bombs weighing over a thousand kilograms to destroy the terrorist camps. The campaign started at 3.45 am, which lasted till 4.05 pm, while the actual attack lasted only about two minutes. The warplanes flew from several air bases for the expedition. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was awake throughout the night, keeping an eye on the entire operation and went to rest only when all the fighters and pilots returned safely.
On completion of one year of Balakot Airstrike, former Air Force Chief BS Dhanoa said that a year has passed and we look back with satisfaction. We have learned a lot, a lot of things have been implemented after the operation of Balakot. Fundamentally, it is a change in the way we conduct our tasks. The other side never believed that we would enter Pakistan and destroy the terrorist training camp. We did it successfully. Dhanoa said that after the Balakot airstrikes, there was no major terrorist attack in the entire Indian elections because they were afraid that we would again respond in the same manner or even more devastatingly. The message we wanted to convey was, “You will sneak in” no matter who you are. Otherwise, we could attack them from our region as well.
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