Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday sought to portray India’s surgical strikes against terrorists along the Line of Control as a “distortion of facts”, saying any aggression would not “go unpunished”. Sharif used a passing out parade at the air force academy in Risalpur to speak on last week’s surgical strikes that the Indian Army said caused significant casualties. Read | Pakistan military dismisses surgical strikes as India’s ‘illusion’“Any aggression, born out of deliberate intent or even a strategic miscalculation, will not be allowed to go unpunished and will be met with the most befitting response. Sharif said Operation Zarb-e-Azb had “turned the tide against terrorism” and there had been “success in uprooting the terrorist infrastructure”. The army was eliminating a “residual threat in the form of facilitators and their sympathisers through intelligence-based and combing operations”.

Source: Hindustan Times October 06, 2016 10:30 UTC