India claims airstrikes on Pakistan 'terror camps' across disputed Kashmir border

Attack an act of ‘extreme valour’, says minister, after the first clash of its kind since the countries went to war in 1971

India has said it launched air strikes against a large militant training camp across the ceasefire line in Kashmir, the first aerial bombing over the disputed border since the country went to war with Pakistan in 1971.

Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale said in a briefing that Delhi had received credible intelligence the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant group, which killed 40 Indian security personnel in a suicide bombing earlier this month, was training fighters for similar attacks.

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