Gwalior: Air Marshal B S Dhanoa on Monday stated Pakistani Air Force side did not enter into Indian airspace after the Balakot airstrike, while asserting that the IAF "achieved its military objective" in the operation while Pakistan did not. He added this in response to a question at a press conference held during a day-long event at the Gwalior Air Base to mark 20 years of the Kargil War.

Air Chief Marshal #BSDhanoa has said that #Pakistani fighter planes did not enter #Indian air space after the February #BalakotAirStrike.

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#IAF Chief #BSDhanoa on June 24 said that the #An32aircraft will continue to fly in the mountains as there was no other option. The #AirForce Chief's statement came more than a fortnight after An-32 aircraft, with 13 #IAFpersonnel on board, crashed in #ArunachalPradesh. pic.twitter.com/9OOfcRTXbs

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"They didn't come into our airspace. And what was our objective? Our objective was to strike the (terror) camp and we have done that. We have achieved our objective. Their (Pakistani) objective was to hit our army places. They could not and that is the bottom line," B S Dhanoa said. Dhanoa asserted that the IAF achieved its stated military objective but the Pakistani side did not.