On Tuesday, India avenged the deaths of those martyred in the Pulwama Attack by carrying out "non-military, pre-emptive air strikes" across the Line of Control and completely destroying the launch pads of the three major terror groups. Twelve Mirage 2000 fighter jets dropped 1,000 kg bombs on the camp at around 3:30 in the morning. Following the news various sports pensonalties including Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Mahesh Bhupathi, Saina Nehwal and others took to Twitter to laud the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the pre-dawn air strikes which took place nearly two weeks after 40 soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on February 14.
India struck the biggest camp of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and also eliminated a "very large number" of terrorists, said Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale. "There was very credible intelligence info that JeM (Jaish-e-Mohammed) was planning to carry out terror strikes across India, thereby making this strike absolutely necessary. It was a non-military, pre-emptive strike. India has decided to take action against any terror threat to it", the Foreign Secretary said.
As an act of respect, the Indian cricket team observed a two-minute silence ahead of the first Twenty20 International (T20I) between India and Australia on Sunday to honour the soldiers who died in Pulwama terror attack.