B S Dhanoa: IAF achieved military objective in Balakot operation

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 daylong event at the Gwalior Air Base to mark 20 years of the Kargil WarAir Chief Marshal BSDhanoa has said that Pakistani fighter planes did not enter Indian air space after the February BalakotAirStrikePhoto IANS pictwittercomGA4IJL6O34mdash IANS Tweets ians_india June 24 2019IAF Chief BSDhanoa on June 24 said that the An32aircraft will continue to fly in the mountains as there was no other option The AirForce Chiefs statement came more than a fortnight after An32 aircraft with 13 IAFpersonnel on board crashed in ArunachalPradesh pictwittercom9OOfcRTXbsmdash IANS Tweets ians_india June 24 2019They didnt 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 notBut none of them PAF side crossed the LoC into our side he said The IAF on Monday also organised a seminar on Air operations in Kargil war lessons learnt and way forward at the Gwalior Air Force Station The Air Force had struck a JaisheMohammad JeM terrorist training camp on February 26 in Pakistans Balakot area in response to the February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killedThe Pakistan Air Force retaliated the next day by unsuccessfully targeting various military installations in Jammu and KashmirDhanoa said They deciding to close the airspace is their problem Our economy is vibrant and air traffic is a very important part and you have noticed that the Air Force has never stopped our civilian air trafficOnly on February 27 we had stopped Srinagar airspace for twothree hours We did not allow tension with Pakistan to dictate our civil aviation because our economy is much bigger and much stronger as compared to theirs he added Praising the Mirage2000 the IAF chief recalled how the use of the aircraft equipped with laserguided bombs coupled with the ground forces had turned the tide of the warWe stand by the people who achieved this Pakistan did not have beyond visual range missile When you have an element of surprise by your side then you can make success Purpose of our attack has always been to show our resolve and capability Dhanoa saidWith inputs from PTITop news stories of the daySex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in MumbaiIn the worlds second populous nation the obsession with sex toys shouldnt come as a surprise What however does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country The toys are regularly detained by 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