Question

THE BALAKOT AIR STRIKE

On 14 February 2019, a convoy of vehicles carrying security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National

Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethpora in the Pulwama district, Jammu

and Kashmir, India. The attack resulted in the deaths of 46 Central Reserve Police Force personnel and

the attacker. The perpetrator of the attack was from Indian-administered Kashmir. The responsibility

for the attack was claimed by the Pakistan-based Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed.Pakistan

condemned the attack, and denied any connection to it. The 2019 Balakot airstrike was conducted by

India in the early morning hours of 26th February when Indian warplanes crossed the de facto

border in the disputed region of Kashmir and dropped bombs in the vicinity of the town of Balakot

in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The Balakot Air Strike mission name was Operation

Bandar. It was conducted by the Indian Air Force, seventh and ninth squadrons.

Pakistan's military, the first to announce the airstrike in the morning of 26th February, described the

Indian planes as dropping their payload in an uninhabited wooded hilltop area near Balakot. India,

confirming the airstrike later the same day, characterized it to be a pre-emptive strike directed against

a terrorist training camp, and causing the deaths of a "large number" of terrorists. Balakot Air Strike

has proved that India can retaliate to any dreadful actions towards its nation.

Write down words from the passage which mean:

• Empty/lonely –

• Refused to accept-

• Fight back-

• Carried out-

• Group-

• Criminal​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The 2019 Pulwama attack occurred on 14 February 2019, when a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber at Lethapora (near Awantipora) in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Target: Central Reserve Police Force security personnel

Location: Lethapora, Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Deaths: