India claims hit at known Pakistani town and Jaish-e-Mohammed terror haven

Balakot Pakistan

The coordinates of Balakot in Pakistan on Google Maps.

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force on Tuesday destroyed terror launchpads by flying into Pakistani territory and dropping payloads weighing as much as 1000 kilograms. The key areas that were bombed are Muzaffarabad, Chakothi and Balakot.

The attack is of huge significance as Balakot falls beyond Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, in proper Pakistani territory, unlike Muzaffarabad and Chakothi. As many as 12 Mirage 2000 jets struck Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) terror launch pads in Balakot, Muzaffarabad and Chakothi areas in Pakistan. The attack was carried out at around 3:30 am, IAF sources have said. As per the IAF sources, the fighter jets dropped 1,000 kilogrammes of bombs at terrorist camps across the Line of Control.

It is a major strike as Balakot houses training camps of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the terrorist organisation responsible for the dastardly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama in which 40 innocent Central Reserve Police Force jawans were martyred on February 14.

 

 

Abhishek Singhvi

@DrAMSinghvi

Balakot which is quite far out into the LOC is a deep strike and purportedly where Hafeez Saeed gives a lot of his addresses. If IAF penetrated that deep without casualties it’s a highly successful mission.

Abhishek Singhvi

@DrAMSinghvi

Indian Air Force Strikes at Balakot don’t have official word yet but the Helter skelter by Pakistan seems like something big has happened. The IAF has gone beyond POK & into Pakistan near their capital while they were busy counting alms received from Saudi & China.

Balakot falls deep in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, a town that was destroyed in a massive earthquake in 2005. However, Balakot is in many ways the “epicentre of jihad in South Asia”, according to historian Ayesha Jalal. Situated nearly 18 miles from the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, Balakot was the place where Sayyid Ahmad of Raebareli (1786-1831) and Shah Ismail (1779-1831) waged a jihad against the Sikh kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and fell in battle on 6 May 1831. Balakot is also the gateway to the Kaghan Valley, which is bounded on the east and the south by Kashmir.

The town has also been under the radar of the United States of America for its significance as a terror haven

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