Zee News ground report confirms Jaish camp was bombed in IAF airstrike

Pakistan is trying hard to pretend that the airstrike conducted by IAF against Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot has not caused any damage to its foreign policy assets – Terrorists. They are trying every trick in their book in order to spread the propaganda that IAF airstrikes caused zero casualties. However, now new proofs have emerged exposing the cover-up of Pakistan.

According to a Zee News ground report from Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Balakot camp in Pakistan where IAF carried out airstrikes, the locals in the area confirmed that around 3:00 AM Indian fighter jets dropped bombs at the site. The Zee News reporter also found shells of the bombs at the site of the airstrike.

Zee News also reported that huge Pakistani security forces have been deployed around the entire Jabba top area where the JeM’s centre was located. No one is allowed to visit the site where payloads by IAF were dropped. 

Last week, Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale had said that IAF had struck the biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Balakot.” Vijay Gokhale told a press briefing that “a large number of JeM terrorists, trainers and senior commanders were eliminated in the largest JeM camp in Balakot. The camp was led by Maulana Yousuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghouri, brother in law of JeM chief Masood Azhar.”

Earlier, in a report published in Firstpost, eyewitnesses present at the site of airstrike claimed that they saw up to 35 bodies being transported out of the site by ambulance in the hours after the attack against the Jaish-e-Mohammed. According to eyewitnesses, the dead included twelve men who were said to have been sleeping in a single temporary shack and several other individuals who had earlier served in Pakistan’s military.

The author of Firstpost report has quoted one of the witnesses in Balakot saying, “Local authorities reached the site soon after the bombing, but, the area had already been cordoned off by then by the army, who did not even allow police to enter. The army also took away mobile phones from the medical staff on the ambulances.”

The Firstpost report claims that a former Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer known locally as “Colonel Salim” was killed in the Balakot airstrike, while a “Colonel Zarar Zakri” was injured. Mufti Moeen, a Jaish-e-Mohammed instructor from Peshawar, and improvised explosive device-fabrication expert Usman Ghani were also killed in the airstrike conducted by IAF on 26 February.

Earlier, The Indian Express report said that the IAF in its airstrike against the Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp has hit the four buildings that it had targeted inside the campus of Madrasa Taleem-ul-Quran.

The Indian Express has quoted an official saying, “Why did the Pakistan Army seal the madrasa after the strike? Why did it not allow journalists to visit the madrasa? We have evidence in the form of SAR imagery to show that a building used as a guest house, where brother of Maulana Masood Azhar used to stay; an L-shaped building where trainers used to stay; a double-storied building used to house students entering the seminary and another building where those undergoing final combat training used to stay, were hit by the bombs.”

The air strike was carried out to avenge February 14 terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, by Jaish-e-Mohammed. The International community sided with India after the air strikes on terror camps in Pakistan.