By: Vivek Raghuvanshi
NEW DELHI — India claims it conducted "surgical strikes" Wednesday night on suspected terrorists preparing to infiltrate from "launch pads" across the Line of Control (LOC) — the de facto boundary between India and Pakistan in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir.
The news of the attacks was given at a hurriedly summoned news conference here at noon on Thursday by the Indian Army's director general of military operations, Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, who only read from a prepared statement.
"Significant casualties have been caused to terrorists and those trying to shield them. We don't have a plan to further conduct such strikes. India has spoken to Pakistan," Singh said. "The strikes were launched on Wednesday based on very specific and credible information that some terrorist units had positioned themselves with an aim to carry out infiltration and terrorist strikes."
A statement on the website of India's Press Information Bureau read: "Based on receiving specific and credible inputs that some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along Line of Control to carryout infiltration and conduct terrorist strikes inside Jammu and Kashmir and in various metros in other states, the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes at several of these launch pads to pre-empt infiltration by terrorists."
Singh said he had called his Pakistani counterpart to inform him of the operation.
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