Better discuss if surgical strikes changed anything on ground: Omar

Press Trust of India  |  Srinagar 

Former Chief Minister today said nothing could be gained by debating if surgical strikes against militants' camps in PoK took place or not but what needed to be pondered was if it changed anything on ground.

"There is nothing to be gained from debating whether the #SurgicalStrikes took place. What we should be objectively discussing is what the strikes changed on the ground," Omar wrote on his handle.

He was reacting to surfacing of a fresh video purportedly of surgical strikes carried out by the against terror camps in Pakistan-occupied-on 29 September 2016, 11 days after a deadly militant attack on an base in Uri sector of which had left 19 jawans dead and several others injured.

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First Published: Thu, June 28 2018. 15:00 IST