Balakot Airstrikes  

Five years ago, the Indian Air Force conducted the Balakot airstrikes in Pakistan in response to the Pulwama attack. Code-named 'Operation Bandar', the airstrikes marked a significant retaliation against terrorism. Here's a detailed timeline of the events surrounding the Balakot airstrikes

 While speaking to ANI in the national capital on February 26, the former Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Birender Singh Dhanoa spoke on the first anniversary of Balakot airstrikes

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Sanjay Leela Bhansali announces film on Balakot air strikes, Abhishek Kapoor joins as director
 

Pakistan's Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations, Asif Ghafoor on his Twitter handle shared a doctored video and stated that IAF Marshal Keelor was talking about the Indian failure in Balakot airstrikes.

Not once, but at least thrice, Rahul Gandhi conveniently steered away from making his stand clear on an issue that has become the overarching election agenda, particularly since Balakot strike by Indian forces. Sample this.

A decision on the Pakistan-based Masood Azhar was expected on Wednesday as the UN's sanctions committee was slated to hold a crucial meeting, amid indications that China could lift its hold on the proposal to blacklist him
 

According to a senior official, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is working to equip Sukhoi aircraft to carry and launch BrahMos missiles. Once successful, Su-30 MKIs could easily carry out the long-range strike.

Modi said that the government's stand against terrorism is clear and it could be seen in the past five years. He mentioned the Balakot airstrikes, and rescuing of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman from Pakistan's clutches as evidences of his government's proactive measures to combat terrorism.

PM Modi said that when Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman shot down a Pakistani F-16, while flying a MiG-21 Bison, following India's Balakot air strikes, all political parties of the country should have spoken as one and hailed the achievement. However, the opposition kept harping on when Abhinandan would return.

Eminent Indian liberal columnists like Shiv Visvanathan, Pawan Varma, Santosh Desai had cautioned their lot against perverting secularism, sneering at the majority’s culture and faith, holding nationalism in contempt, distorting history. Each bit of introspection went unheeded last 5 years

We have now established that it was Balakot not Balakote that was hit. Why is this important? Mostly because Pakistan will tend to play down anything that hits it severely. For example, the Kargil retreat negotiated by Nawaz Sharif was portrayed as nothing much and the casualties of that war which Sharif claimed were greater than the 1965 war were suppressed completely with funerals held in secret. Clearly then, the blow is severe