New Delhi: A foreign journalist has confirmed that up to 170 terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group were killed in the Balakot airstrike.  The Indian Air Force (IAF) air strikes in Balakot came days after the deadly Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were martyred. JeM had claimed responsibility for the attack.

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The news report by Francesca Marino in stringerasia.it has come just days after Masood Azhar was listed as a global terrorist. The journalist reports quoting sources that while the Indian Air Force bombed the JeM camp at 3.30 am on February 26, 2019, a unit of the Pakistan Army reached the spot at around 6 am. The Pakistan Army unit came from their camp in Shinkiari, located some 20 kilometres away. The report points out that Pakistan Army treats Shinkiari as its base camp and the Junior Leaders Academy is situated there.

The journalist claims that between 130 to 170 JeM terrorists were killed in the air strikes, including 20 who died during the treatment. Some 45 injured are still undergoing treatment at the HuM camp. He further said, the Army has not allowed those injured who have recovered to leave the camp.

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