India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said
that missile strikes against Pakistan were a carefully planned operation that
exercised New Delhi’s right to respond.
According to India’s military, the strikes destroyed nine
terrorist camps belonging to those it blamed for an attack last month in
Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people.
Pakistan said 21 civilians were killed in the strikes, with
five more deaths reported in cross-border gunfire that followed.
Islamabad officials said among the dead were four children, including two three-year-old girls.
“The targets we had chosen were destroyed with great
precision and sensitivity, ensuring that no civilian population or area was
affected.
“We only targeted terror camps, exercising our right to
respond to the attack on our soil,” Singh told reporters in New Delhi.
India had been widely expected to respond to the April 22
assault on tourists in Kashmir, which it blamed on Pakistan-based militant
group Lashkar-e-Taiba, a UN-designated terrorist organisation.
Singh said the operation was aimed solely at “terror
infrastructure”, describing it as a calibrated response that reflected India’s
restraint and professionalism.
“We can say that it was a display of precision, alertness
and humanity”, he added.
Islamabad rejects backing the April 22 attack.
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif earlier
accused Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of launching the strikes to “shore
up” his domestic popularity, but said that Islamabad had struck back.
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