India’s surgical strike is being celebrated across the nation with full joy. Finally, India strikes back to the terror attacks it has been going through. But the best part is, even after the Uri attacks, it was a hell load of difficult for the army to carry out the strikes as the ISI was on high alert. But even after this, Indian soldiers managed to fool the ISI and strike the enemy. Here’s how it went through:
- It was an almost moonless night, which was very crucial to the operation, helping the commandos camouflage themselves in the night.
- Ghatak platoon of 6 Bihar and 10 Dogra units were made part of the surgical operations as they were familiar with the terrain. It also gave them a sense of responsibility in avenging the deaths of their fellow jawans. Both units suffered losses in the Uri terror attack on September, 18.
- Local commanders were given a free hand to select the targets. Terrorist launching pads had been mapped in advance. The teams had been already moved to forward positions by helicopters, but no Indian army chopper crossed the LOC. The helicopters remained on standby throughout the operations. The troops carried Carl Gustav rifles, grenades, shoulder fired weapons and flamethrowers among other equipment.
- The Cartosat-2C images helped with narrowing down the locations for the strikes. We have very good external intelligence and our Army is watching them from over a week, so Indian army made a fool-proof plan!
- It started with artillery fire being opened up at a few locations including along LOC in Uri. As the Pakistani troops focused themselves on retaliating to the firing, Indian commandos crawled across the LOC to the predetermined spots across the LOC. The targets were terrorist launching pads in Hot Springs, Kel, and Lipa that came under 15 Corps, while Bhimber Gali came under the Army’s 16th corps. Even then two trucks of Pakistani Rangers arrived at the spot and two of them are killed and nine of them are injured.
- The entire surgical strike is planned 2 to 5 km across POK, which legally belongs to India. So we need not worry about breaking sovereignty of any nation or informing anyone beforehand!
- A very well planned strategy by Indian James bond Ajit Doval along with the defense minister Parrikar and PM Modi facilitated our brave army commandos to carry out this precision surgical strike with no casualties on Indian side!
- All this left very less time for the Pakistani intelligence to gather information and inform about the strike. By the time, they knew about it, the strike was successful, and we won.
