Terror camps in Pakistan’s Balakot are lively again, Army chief Bipin Rawat believed on Monday, about seven months after the Indian Air Force shattered the complex run by the Jaish-e-Mohammad in revenge for the Pulwama terror attack.
Army chief Rawat further added that nearly 500 troops are waiting to infiltrate into India.
“Balakot has been again activated by Pakistan in recent times. That shows that Balakot has been affected. It had been dented and destroyed. And that is why people have got away from there and now it has been reactivated,” he briefed to the reporters on Monday.
“…some exploit had been taken by Indian Air Force and now they have got the people back there,” the army officer said.
A bunch of IAF jets had shattered the terror launch pads in Balakot in an airborne attack passed out on February 27. During the in-flight confrontation, Abhinandan Varthaman brought down a Pakistani F-16 but was taken hostage near the Line of Control (LoC). He was later let go by Islamabad.
Pakistan had also determined to limit access to its airspace after the Balakot strikes, follow-on in a loss of 8.5 billion Pakistani rupees.
The airspace was opened in July, but Pakistani leaders have in recent weeks given statements on airspace shutting following India’s move to crumb special status for Jammu and Kashmir.
