Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit dismissed New Delhi’s statement that Indian Army had conducted successful surgical strikes on the terror launch pads across the Line of Control on September 29 calling it “fictional”. He also said that had there been any such attack Islamabad would have “retaliated immediately”.
“No such surgical strikes took place. There was only cross-border firing by Indian troops (on September 29), in which two Pakistan army soldiers were murdered. Pakistan responded to it immediately and proportionately,” Basit said in an interview to a television channel.
“Had there been any surgical strike, Pakistan would have retaliated immediately…we did not need any reaction time. It seems to me the term surgical strike is being used very loosely in India… no Indian soldiers crossed the LoC…there was only cross-border firing,” he said.
