2019 Balakot airstrike by India

On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the deaths of 46 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and the attacker.The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).Pakistan condemned the attack, and denied any connection to it.
The 2019 Balakot airstrike occurred on 26 February 2019, when twelve Mirage 2000H jets of the Indian Air Force crossed the Line of Control around 3:30 am in Kashmir to perform an airstrike on an alleged terrorist training camp inside Pakistan in retaliation for the Pulwama attack, which took place two weeks prior.

According to India, the jets struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed-operated militant camp at Balakot killing an unquantified number of militants and returned into Indian airspace unharmed .Pakistan scrambled its F-16 jets but they could not engage the Indian planes.

The airstrike was the first time since the war of 1971 that Indian Air Force aircraft crossed the Line of Control and the first time since both states have become nuclear powers.
Proud of IAF for successfully attacking the terror camps at Balakot and giving justice to our brave CRPF soldiers and returning safely.
Source:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_Line_of_Control_strike
Date:05-03-2019