Pakistan said on Tuesday that it has “the right toself-defence and (give) a befitting response” after the IAF “struck JeM’sbiggest training camp in Balakot close to the Line of Control (LoC)”.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi described as “Indianaggression” the Indian Air Force’s bombing from the Muzaffarabad sector of whatNew Delhi said the biggest training camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).
He claimed the Indian jets were forced to return “owing tothe timely response of the Pakistan Air Force”.
“We kept on telling the world that this could happen… they(India) carried out aggression against Pakistan today,” he said.
“India violated the LoC. Pakistan holds the right toself-defence and a befitting response,” Qureshi told media, after chairing anemergency consultative meeting at the Foreign Office to discuss the situationarising from what he dubbed as Indian intrusion.
He said Prime Minister Imran Khan had summoned a meeting toreview the situation.