Army has no data on ‘surgical strikes’ carried before Sept 2016: Official

Army has no data to suggest that surgical strikes were conducted by its troops across the Line of Control (LoC) before September 29, 2016, the day when such strikes were carried out in Pakistan Administered Kashmir (PaK).

This was stated by the Directorate General of MilitaryOperations (DGMOs) in a RTI reply, putting to rest the claim of UPA andCongress that six surgical strikes were conducted during the period of ManmohanSingh government.

   

“This section does not hold any data pertaining tosurgical strikes if carried out before September 29, 2016,” said Lt Col AD S Jasrotia at the Integrated Headquarters of MoD (Army).

The reply came in response to an RTI filed by Jammu-basedactivist Rohit Choudhary about the number of surgical strikes on Pakistanbetween 2004 and 2014, and after September 2014. He had also sought to know howmany of those were successful.

“Indian army conducted surgical strikes along the LOCon 29 September 2016. No Indian soldier lost his life during surgicalstrikes”, the officer of IHQ of Army’s Director General of MilitaryOperations (DGMO) said in the RTI reply.

Some Congress leaders including from former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh  claimed that severalsurgical strikes were  conducted by armyduring the previous UPA rule.

“Multiple surgical strikes took place during ourtenure, too. For us, military operations were meant for strategic deterrenceand giving a befitting reply to anti-India forces than to be used for votegarnering exercises,” Singh had said in an interview to a newspaper.   Congress leader Rajiv Shukla had told reportersat an AICC briefing last week that six surgical strikes were conducted duringthe period  of Manmohan Singh government.

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