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Army gives surgical strike videos to Govt
Updated : Oct 5, 2016
The Indian Army has given multiple videos and graphic evidence of its surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) last week, asking it to take a final call on whether they should be made public. Ahir, the Minister of State for Home, said there is a process for putting such issues in perspective which was duly followed by the Army as well as the government. Separately, Kiren Rijiju, also a MoS for Home , said everyone should have faith in the government and allow the Army to take its own call. The video evidence of the Army operation was announced just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a Cabinet Committee on Security meeting in New Delhi to discuss whether the details of the strikes should be revealed amid intense politics over the issue. "The laid down procedure has been followed. The DGMO briefed (about the surgical strikes). It was not the Defence Minister nor the Prime Minister and not the Home Minister. It was the DGMO who briefed (the media). That was the right thing to do and they (Army) did it."There was a time when written documents were submitted. Now the times have changed. Now clips are given and the clips have been given," Ahir told reporters.