Indian Army hands over surgical strikes video to government

India's Junior Interior Minister Hansraj Ahir on Wednesday said the army has handed over to the government the video of the surgical strikes it purportedly conducted in Kashmir area.

Indian army claimed that they have conducted surgical strike along the defacto border in Pakistani occupied Kashmir last week.

The move came after opposition leaders in India raised doubts over the authenticity of the surgical strike.

"Yes, the videos have been submitted. There is a process, earlier documents were given. Now there are clips," Ahir told reporters in capital New Delhi.

Main opposition Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Tuesday dubbed the surgical strike as claimed by the Indian Army in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as "fake."

The opposition Congress party asked the ruling BJP government to show credible evidence of last week surgical strike.

The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan also said that it did not observed any firing across the LoC related to the latest incident.

India's right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been targeted and accused by the rival parties for politicising the army operation.

Meanwhile, Pakistan has also scaled up an international pressure to disprove India's claim of having successfully raided across the border. Pakistan's military had brought in a bus load of foreign journalists to one of the five posts that Indian Special Forces had claimed to have struck.

The Pakistan government and army have repeatedly dismissed claims that India's military conducted surgical strikes on its side of the border in disputed Kashmir region.

The disputed Kashmir region is India's only Muslim-majority state, both the arch rivals rule the region in part but claim it in full and India has long accused Pakistan of arming separatists battling Indian forces in its part of Kashmir. Pakistan denies that.

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