Referring to the covert operation carried out by the elite US Special Forces, Navy Seals, to eliminate Al Qaeda head Osama Bin Laden from Pakistan's Abbottabad, Jaitley threw up an intriguing question that if US could carry out such a mission inside Pakistani territory what stopped India from doing the same.
The Finance Minister added that if one were to look at the last 24 hours, one week would appear to be a day. The kind of things we see...I remember when the US Navy SEALs had taken Osama Bin Laden from (Pakistan),then can't we do the same?
Earlier on Wednesday, India shot down Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 fighter jet after an airspace violation was reported by the jet in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowshera sector on Wednesday morning. The fighter jet was shot down in Indian retaliatory fire 3 KM within Pakistan territory in Lam valley, Nowshera sector, news agency ANI.
The Finance Minister's remarks come a day after Indian Air Force Mirage jets carried out a precision aerial strikes on Jaish-E-Mohammad terror camps located in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The strikes were unprecedented in nataure as the Indian fighter jets went deep inside Pakistan territory, destroyed Jaish camps in a 21-minute seek and destroy mission.