New Delhi: The Army had carried out "pinpointed strikes" on terror launch pads inside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to Pakistani military's unrelenting efforts to push maximum number of terrorists into India before the onset of harsh winters, defence sources said today.
In the last few weeks, the Pakistani Army has been aggressively targeting civilians along the LoC with indiscriminate firing using heavy-calibre artillery to support infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir, sources said.
The sources said intelligence-based targeted strikes are being conducted by the Indian Army to neutralise mostly Pakistani and foreign terrorists, and the collateral damage has been very negligible in these operations.
A new pattern being followed by Pakistan in "inciting" unrest and arming young people in Jammu and Kashmir is to avoid any trace of its involvement due to growing international pressure on it to take action against terror groups operating from its soil, sources said.
"Pakistan has sought to target Indian villagers to send a message to people in the Kashmiri hinterland that to disobey Pakistani diktats and directives on terrorism will prove lethal," a defence source said.
