“If the question is that did the Army cross the LoC in the past too, the answer is yes. But if the question is that did the Army carry out an operation to destroy launch pads of terrorists across the LoC, the answer is no,” a source in the committee quoted the foreign secretary as saying
The agency said the foreign secretary’s purported statement was based on what it had gathered from opposition MPs who are members of the standing committee. It quoted a government source as saying, “What the FS said is that the key issue is that we went public after conducting the surgical strikes which conveyed a politico-military message. Whether any previous crossing had been done only the Army would know. But it is irrelevant anyway because there was no message.”
