Masood Azhar’s kin killed in the pre-dawn attack: Govt
PM Modi briefed President and Vice President about attack
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on Tuesday held a press conference and confirmed that the IAF carried out a non-military pre-emptive attack in Pakistan in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Gokhale, also confirmed that Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Chief Masood Azhar’s brother-in-law Moulana Yusuf Azhar alias Ustad Ghauri has been killed in the attack.
He added the government had intelligence that more Fidayeen attack were being planned to be carried out in India by Jaish and the executers were being trained at the location.
It was later reported that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefed President Ramnath Kovind and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu about the attack on Tuesday around 12 pm.
Among other reports, top intelligence sources added that about 300 trainees and top commanders of the Jaish were killed in the attack, which the intelligence sources added was a intelligence based anti-terror operation and not military operation.
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Power struggle in ruling Cong has 'created massive confusion' in Karnataka: BJP leader Ashoka
Bengaluru (PTI): BJP leader R Ashoka on Friday claimed that the ongoing power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar has created massive confusion in Karnataka.
He remarked that the proverb “when two people fight, the third one benefits” has come true, as AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge is also now making efforts to become Chief Minister.
Speaking to reporters here, Ashoka said the entire government has turned into a house of confusion due to the alleged power tussle.
Kharge’s new statement has only added to the chaos, he said.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge had on Friday said that no date has been fixed yet to discuss possible leadership change in Karnataka.
This came a day after Kharge said there was no change of CM in Karnataka "for now" and that the leadership issue in the state would be resolved soon.
The BJP leader said that Kharge too has aspirations and that he was cheated earlier.
"Perhaps he has received a green signal from the Congress high command to become CM. Everyone is already saying Kharge should become CM. Kharge himself has declared, “I am ready to become CM.” Despite many attempts in the past, he never became CM. Now he is trying to seize the opportunity," the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly said.
According to him, the situation in Congress has perfectly become a case of “two people fighting, third one benefits.”
