Most were from Rawalpindi and Attock district.
Zee Media has accessed a list of 42 trained suicide bombers who were present in the Balakot training camp of Jaish-e- Mohammed. The training camp was destroyed by IAF Mirage 2000 planes on wee hours of Tuesday. According to the list, miost of the terrorists were from Rawalpindi districts who were waiting to sneak into India.
In a pinpointed and swift air strike that lasted less than two minutes, India pounded Jaish-e-Mohammed's biggest training camp in Pakistan early Tuesday, killing up to 350 terrorists and trainers who were moved there for their protection after the Pulwama attack, officials said.
The pre-dawn operation described as "non-military" and "preemptive" struck a five-star resort style camp on a hilltop forest that provided a dozen Mirage 2000 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force(IAF) with a "sitting duck target" and caught the terrorists in their sleep, sources said. The strike is the first by the IAF inside Pakistan after the 1971 war.
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1. Masood Azhar's JeM base targetted
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The sources said the IAF jets used a number of laser-guided bombs, each weighing over 1,000 kg, to destroy the terror camp, about 20 km from Balakot town.
The operation began around 3:45 AM and concluded by 4:05 AM while the actual strike lasted for less than two minutes, the sources said. The aircraft took off from a number of bases, they said.
Prime Minister Modi was up all night as he monitored the IAF operation, relaxing only after all the pilots returned safely home, government sources said. He congratulated all those involved in the operation at around 4.30 am.
According to sources, the brother-in-law of JeM chief Masood Azhar, the terror organisation which took responsibility for the Pulwama attack, Maulana Yousuf Azhar also known as Ghauri, was the main target of the Indian Air Force.
Who is Maulana Yousuf Azhar?
Masood Azhar's brother-in-law Maulana Yousuf Azhar was the main target of IAF in its retaliation of the Pulwama attack. Yousuf Azhar was among one of the terrorists who hijacked Indian Airlines flight which was on its way from Kathmandu to Lucknow (IC-814) in 1999.
2. Large number of terrorists killed
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A large number of JeM terrorists, including top commanders, trainers and those terrorists who were to be the ‘fidayeen’ (suicide attackers) were eliminated in the “non-military” air strike, India's Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told media while officially disclosing information about the air strike, hours after the action.
3. Swift operation
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In a swift operation launched at around 3.30 am on Tuesday and completed within minutes, 12 Mirage-2000 fighter jets pounded the training centre, housing around 300 terrorists, in Balakot area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province with six bombs, while SU-30 combat aircraft maintained air superiority to ward off any retaliation by the Pakistan Air Force, sources said.
4. Headed by brother-in-law of Masood Azhar
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The camp, located in a forest area atop a hill, was headed by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar’s brother-in-law Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Gauri, who was involved in the 1999 hijack of Indian Airlines plane IC-814 and was on Interpol lookout notice since 2000.
