India, March 9: India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh today triggered a political storm by mentioning about the third air strike conducted across LoC in last five years.
"In the past five years, we have crossed the border thrice and conducted air strikes. I will tell you about two, not the third one," he said at a public rally in Mangaluru.
"Once in Uri, our soldiers were killed by terrorists coming from Pakistan, then our soldiers had responded. Next was after Pulwama. The third one I will not disclose," he added.
In a pre-emptive and non-military action, India had targetted the terror training camp of JeM after they had claimed responsibility for February 14 terror attack in Kashmir's Pulwama in which over 40 CRPF jawans were killed by a suicide bomber.
Pakistan retaliated the next day by sending a pack of fighter jets across LoC to target military installations in India.
In an aerial dog fight that ensued, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman shot down a Pakistani F-16 before ejecting, but he was captured by Pakistan Army after his parachute landed across the LoC.
Abhinandan, however, was released after mounting global pressure.
The first air strike in last five years was in September 2016 when IAF crossed LoC to decimate terror launch pads in PoK, weeks after Pakistani terrorists attacked an army base in Uri in Kashmir, killing 19 soldiers.
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