New Delhi: As the Indian government lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech at the UN on Thursday, describing Pakistan as "a terrorist state, which channelises billions of dollars, much of it diverted from international aid, to training, financing and supporting terrorist groups as militant proxies against it neighbours," an online news portal made the sensational - if unverifiable - claim, that Pakistan's attack on Uri army base that had claimed the lives of 18 soldiers had been avenged with a cross-border raid that claimed 200 casualties. It said the raid was conducted "during the intervening hours of 20 September and 21 September."
While the online website Quint said it had verified the information from two independent sources, this newspaper was unable to get any confirmation from the armed forces by the end of Thursday.
The website claimed that "At least 20 terrorists have been neutralised in a daring cross-LoC operation by the Indian Army in response to the Uri attack," adding " two units of the elite 2 Paras comprising 18-20 soldiers flew across the LoC in the Uri sector in military helicopters and carried out an operation that killed at least 20 suspected terrorists across three terror camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)."
Indications that the Indian Special Forces struck across LoC came in the form of Pakistan declaring a no-fly zone over PoK on 20 September night, it added.
Sharif, spoke with the country’s Army Chief Gen, Raheel Sharif on Tuesday night ahead of his 'Kashmir' speech at the UN, and is speculated to have discussed this cross-border raid as well, the website said.
