IAF strikes News
India's 90-min airstrikes crippled 11 PAF bases, forcing Pakistan to plead for ceasefire after failed nuclear posturing.
Reportedly, Pakistan was fearful that Saeed would reveal incriminating evidence against it and their support to terror organisations operating from its soil.
The IAF conducted air strike last month on a camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan, in retaliation to the terror outfit's attack at Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
The telephonic conversation between the two NSAs came amid heightened tension between India and Pakistan triggered by the Pulwama attack.
Tensions escalated between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack in Kashmir which killed 40 CRPF personnel and was claimed by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
At an event in Ahmedabad on Sunday, Amit Shah had said the Indian Air Force (IAF) air strikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Pakistan's Balakot last Tuesday "killed more than 250 terrorists".
In order to ease the tensions, China has maintained close communication with both India and Pakistan.
Some prominent American observers on South-Asian affairs said Wednesday that Pakistan needs to dismantle terrorist groups and end its support to such organisations to de-escalate tensions with India.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday said a pilot is missing after Pakistan responded to India`s counter-terrorism action.
Farooq Abdullah said "Let me remind the two nations that war is a plague that will have far-reaching consequences on the growth and development of the two nations."
The statement followed fresh Indo-Pak confrontations a day after Indian Air Force launched a counter-terrorism action against a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror training camp at Balakot in Pakistan.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang's remarks came after Pakistan targeted military installations in India in response to Indian counter-terrorism in Balakot.
Pakistan on Wednesday said that its jets crossed the Line of Control to undertake strikes in India for "self defence".
The state government's move comes days after a 50-year-old Pakistani convict was allegedly killed by fellow inmates in Rajasthan's Jaipur Central jail.
The development comes after the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday bombed the biggest Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror outfit`s biggest training camp in Balakot, Pakistan, 12 days after a JeM suicide bomber killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force troopers.
Gujarat shares a long international land and coastal border with Pakistan.
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