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On February 27, 2024, Pakistan commemorated the fifth anniversary of Operation Swift Retort in which the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) successfully downed Indian fighter aircraft which had violated Pakistan’s airspace.
- Pulwama Attack: On February 14, 2019, a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel was attacked by a local Kashmiri youth named Adil Ahmad Dar in Pulwama, Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Adil’s family later revealed that his anger against the Indian state grew after he was injured and humiliated while participating in a protest in 2016. In a revealing interview given to Karan Thapar on April 14, 2023, the former governor of Jammu & Kashmir Satyapal Malik exposed a series of lapses and ignorance of the Indian government that resulted in lack of security on the route travelled by the paramilitary forces which culminated in the Pulwama attack.
- Balakot Crisis: On February 26, 2019, India conducted a so-called ‘surgical strike’ inside Pakistan’s territory on an alleged Jaish-eMuhammad (JeM) training camp in Balakot located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan using twenty French-made Mirage-2000 armed with Israeli Spice-2000 bombs and Crystal Maze missiles guided by U.S. GPS and targeting systems. Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale claimed that the strike killed ‘a very large number’ of militants, including commanders. However, the strike was termed as ‘a very precise miss’ by analysts who deeply studied the failed strike through open-source satellite imagery. The violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity prompted Pakistan to deliver an immediate and appropriate response: Operation Swift Retort.
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