Home Minister Amit Shah Salutes Valour Of Indian Air Force On Second Anniversary Of Balakot Airstrike

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday (26 February) saluted the valour of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on completion of two years of the Balakot air strike conducted in Pakistan on February 26 two years ago, in response to the terrorist attack in Pulwama district of Jammu & Kashmir on 14 February 2019.

On this day, the IAF had entered Pakistan and avenged the Pulwama terror attack by destroying the terror camps of Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).

On 14 February, a car packed with a large quantity of explosives had rammed into a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH). As a result, 42 CRPF personnel were martyred in this terrorist attack. Twelve days after this incident, the Indian Air Force conducted an airstrike in Pakistan's Balakot on the night of February 26 and destroyed terror camps.

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