In a press briefing, Pakistan's Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor, stated that three IAF teams were spotted approaching the Pakistan border from various sectors in the early hours of 26 February. On 26 February 2019, Pakistan announced the intrusion of Indian aircraft into its airspace, but asserted that the Indian fleet was intercepted, causing them to retreat, to release their bombs which hit an open area, and to dump their fuel. The Indian government rejected the allegation. On 19 February, Pakistan's PM attributed Indian government's desire to attack Pakistan to the upcoming election. The airstrike occurred ahead of the 2019 Indian general election. Pakistan condemned the attack, and denied any connection to it. The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. The perpetrator of the attack was from Indian-administered Kashmir. The attack resulted in the deaths of 46 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and the attacker. On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. In 2018, more than 500 people (including civilians, soldiers and militants) were killed in the violence.
The Kashmir insurgency has been occurring since 1989, but a new wave of violence was witnessed during 2016 when Burhan Wani then commander of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in an encounter. įurther information: Kashmir conflict, Pakistan and state-sponsored terrorism, and 2019 Pulwama attack On 10 April 2019, 47 days after the airstrike, some international journalists, who were taken to the Jaba hilltop in a tightly controlled trip arranged by Pakistani government, found the largest building of the site to show no evidence of damage or recent rebuilding. The airstrikes were the first time since the India-Pakistan war of 1971 that warplanes of either country crossed the Line of Control and also since both states have become nuclear powers. An Indian Mi-17 helicopter was brought down by friendly fire in which all six airmen on board were killed this was acknowledged by India on 4 October 2019. The following day on 27 February, in a tit-for-tat airstrike, Pakistan retaliated, causing an Indian warplane to be shot down and its pilot to be taken prisoner by the Pakistan military before being returned on 1 March. Analysis of open-source satellite imagery by the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Laboratory, San Francisco-based Planet Labs, European Space Imaging, and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, has concluded that India did not hit any targets of significance on the Jaba hilltop site in the vicinity of Balakot. India, confirming the airstrike later the same day, characterized it to be a preemptive strike directed against a terrorist training camp, and causing the deaths of a "large number" of terrorists.
Pakistan's military, the first to announce the airstrike in the morning of 26 February, described the Indian planes as dropping their payload in an uninhabited wooded hilltop area near Balakot. The airstrike was conducted by India in the early morning hours of 26 February when Indian warplanes crossed the de facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir and dropped bombs in the vicinity of the town of Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The airstrike was used by India's ruling party to bolster its patriotic appeal in the general elections of April 2019. India claimed that a Pakistani F-16 fighter jet was downed, but that claim has been shown to be false. Indian anti-aircraft fire downed an Indian helicopter killing six or seven airmen on board, their deaths receiving perfunctory coverage by Indian media. The following day, Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane and took its pilot prisoner. Open source satellites imagery has revealed that no targets of consequence were hit. The 2019 Balakot airstrike was a bombing raid conducted by Indian warplanes on February 26, 2019, in Balakot, Pakistan against an alleged terrorist training camp.
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