Chennai: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said Pakistan has reactivated Balakot very recently and about 500 “infiltrators” were waiting to illegally enter India.
“Balakot has been reactivated by Pakistan very recently. That shows that Balakot has been affected. It had been damaged and destroyed. And that is why people have got away from there and now it has been reactivated,” he told reporters at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai.
He then said around “500 infiltrators were waiting to infiltrate into the country.” He added that “…some action had been taken by Indian Air Force and now they have got the people back there.”
The Indian Air Force had carried out an air strike at what it said were terror camps at Balakot in retaliation to the February terror attack on CRPF personnel in Pulwama.