India's Surgical Strike against Pakistan Uri Attack

1. THE SURGICAL STRIKE
Name : Shivam Tyagi
Class : IX “B”
Roll No.: 11

2. WHAT IS A SURGICAL
STRIKE?
 Surgical Strike is a military attack that is carried out to damage
military targets, minimal collateral damage to the surrounding and the
general public infrastructure. The aim is to eliminate the target
without causing collateral damage to nearby areas and civilians.

3. SURGICAL STRIKE OF
INDIA
 In September 2016, the Indian Army
launched surgical strikes against terrorist
camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The
strike on September 28, 2016, was in
response to an attack by Pakistan-based
terrorists on an army base in Kashmir’s Uri
on September 18 in which 19 soldiers were
killed.

4. CAUSE OF SURGICAL
STRIKE
 Surgical strikes were planned as there was a “rage” building up
within him as well as the Army after soldiers were killed in the terror
attack in Uri.

5. PM’S STATEMENT
 PM Modi said that while talking to the Army, he realised that they
wanted justice for their martyred soldiers and the government gave
them the “free hand” to plan and execute the surgical strikes.
 PM Modi ordered the troops to not think about the success or
failure and be back "before sunrise".

6. DEFENCE MINISTER’S
STATEMENT
 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh saying that it gave a clear message
to the world that "we can kill terrorists on this side as well as by
crossing the border if the need arises".

7. HOW THE SURGICAL STRIKE
WAS CARRIED OUT?
 In September 2016, terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-
Mohammed entered the Army camp in Uri near the Line of Control
and killed 20 soldiers in the attack.
 The Indian Army troops including the commandos from various
units of the Para (Special Forces) units deployed in Jammu and
Kashmir carried out raids across the border on multiple targets.

8. CONTD...
 All these targets were launch pads for terrorists for infiltrating into
Jammu and Kashmir for carrying out attacks against military and
civilian targets.