What is the real definition of surgical strikes?
What India claims to be surgical strike is LoC violation: Pakistan.
(Web Desk) – The words ‘surgical strike’ must have been the most spoken and searched words in Pakistan and India yesterday because of the early morning LoC violation which India proclaimed as surgical strikes and Pakistan rejected by calling it a "fabrication of truth".
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With the media of each side rejecting the other side’s claims and notions, every analyst and columnist being given a chance to speak and write is altercating to define surgical strike.
The hype created by Pakistani and Indian media has been successful in achieving its goal since every average citizen is looking up the true meaning of this terminology.
Pakistan’s version:
Major General (R) Muhammad Javaid defined the term ‘surgical strike’ in Dunya News program Nuqta-e-Nazar as “an intervention into a country or done with surgical efficiency and immediate withdrawal after achieving predefined targets. This may involve the air force and gunship helicopters.”
“It aims to target features on ground and never people because people do not have prior information and are not always present in the form of a gathering. Hence the Indian claim of targeting specific people or militants does not stand.”
“A surgical strike involves either an aerial action, helicopter-borne action, or intervening troops that are dropped into a country’s boundary and withdraw after targeting with everything being carried out quite speedily.
“Exchange of small arms or mortar fire cannot be termed as a surgical strike.”
“There are no training camps on LoC as these are never established on border in accordance with military logic. Operational environment, terrain mining, and surveillance system are major obstacles in crossing the working boundary and cannot be crossed by Indian army.”
Flaws in the Indian version:
Hindustan Times is stating the “38” as the number of “terrorists’ killed and 12.30-4.30 am as the time taken for the mission. It narrates the tale as follows:
“On Wednesday night, some of India’s toughest fighting men – soldiers of the elite Parachute Regiment – were heli-dropped at pre-designated sites on the Indian side of the LoC. They crossed the de facto border on foot, and were stealthy enough to maintain surprise.”
Pakistan has shunned the idea of crossing “the de facto border on foot” being a surgical strike and avows it to be a direct violation of LoC which is the working boundary between the two countries.
Indian officials have stated that “the strikes aimed at neutralizing the terrorists had caused multiple casualties.”
However, DG ISPR Lt Gen Asim Saleem Bajwa had rejected this claim yesterday.
READ: Pak Army rejects India’s claim of ‘surgical strikes’ across LoC’
Furthermore, mined terrain cannot be crossed “on foot” unnoticed under efficient surveillance systems working in an operational environment.
Despite the evident discrepancies between the Indian claim and ground realities, the issue is still trending. Till now, the tension on the working boundary has cost Pakistan the lives of two soldiers and along with the death of eight Indian soldiers and one captive.
