India’s already suspect ‘surgical strikes’ claims have been rendered completely bogus after Secretary General UN, Ban Ki-moon’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has also repudiated them. <br />The PAF in its statement said that Pakistan Air Force was always on guard to respond any external aggression in a strong and befitting manner. <br /> <br />“Aerial boundaries of the motherland shall continue to be guarded at all costs” and no bid to cast an evil eye will let go unnoticed, it added. <br /> <br />India said on Thursday it had conducted “surgical strikes” on so-called militants preparing to infiltrate from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan. <br /> <br />This quest by Indian establishment to create media hype by rebranding cross-border fire as the surgical strike is a fabrication of the truth,” the ISPR said and added, “Pakistan has made it clear that if there is a surgical strike on Pakistani soil, same will be strongly responded.” <br />The latest episode in already simmering Pakistan-India relations is a so-called “surgical strike” – an Indian claim made soon after two Pakistani soldiers were killed at the Line of Control in Azad Jammu and Kashmir as reported Thursday. <br /> <br />With the Pakistani military rejecting that the episode was a result of a "surgical strike", the media in both countries is now hotly debating the terminology. <br />“A surgical strike is one that comes as a surprise and is conducted with surgical efficiency. It happens when an entity does the job and comes out. It is not messy. There is no collateral damage,” said Mr Chaudhry. <br /> <br />“On another level, sometimes what happens is that there is knowledge of the strike but an inability to respond.” <br /> <br />Referring to the incident today, Mr Chaudhry said, “What India has done today is an LoC violation. Not a surgical strike.”
