The Silly Season continues : Were 300 mobiles phones being used by trees? : Rajnath Singh

[MenInG]

DHUBRI (ASSAM): Home Minister Rajnath Singh today attacked the Congress over the debate on the casualty figures of the air strike in Balakot. The Home Minister said the opposition party is not willing to accept an assessment by the National Technical Research Organisation that said some 300 mobile phones were active at the Jaish-e-Mohammed camp before the Air Force's Mirage 2000 fighter jets bombed it. The NTRO is the country's top technical analysis and intelligence-gathering agency that can track and eavesdrop on communications.

"The NTRO, which has an authentic system, said that 300 mobile phones were active... Were these mobile phones used by the trees? Now will you not believe the NTRO also?" the Home Minister said after inaugurating a surveillance system of the Border Security Force in Assam's Dhubri today. He said the Congress should go to Pakistan and count the casualties if it insists on knowing the exact figures.

"India's respected and authentic NTRO surveillance system has said that before Indian pilots dropped the bombs, 300 mobile phones were active there. There's no need to tell you how many were killed," Mr Singh said, according to news agency Reuters.

The NTRO is under the direct control of the Prime Minister's Office.

The sparring between the party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the opposition intensified after BJP chief Amit Shah in a public meeting in Gujarat, two days ago, claimed over 250 terrorists were killed in the Balakot air strike.

The Air Force said it does not count casualty figures. "Air Force is not in a position to clarify how many people were inside. We don't count human casualties. We count what targets we have hit or not hit," Air Chief Marshal ** Dhanoa told reporters on Monday.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the government has already made its position on the casualty figures clear in a statement by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale on the day the air strike took place. Mr Gokhale had not given any casualty figures.

The Air Force on February 26 hit the Jaish-e-Mohammed's camp in Balakot, inside Pakistan, over a week after a suicide bomber detonated a mini-van laden with explosives on Jammu-Srinagar highway, killing 40 CRPF soldiers.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/wer...-balakot-air-strike-2003138?pfrom=home-livetv

 

[blackanhyellow]

India should just come clean and admit they messed this one up and Pakistan out maneuvered them at every turn. Being humiliated once is better than being humiliated many times over a long time period.

Satelite images show that the madrassa in the area is still standing with no visible damage. Which is in line with what Pak army was saying, that Indians got nervous when Pak army went to confront them. They dumped and ran, missing their target.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-kashmir-pakistan-airstrike-insi/satellite-images-show-madrasa-buildings-still-standing-at-scene-of-indian-bombing-idUSKCN1QN00V

“No one died. Only some pine trees died, they were cut down. A crow also died.”

 

[MP2011]

How could this joker be India's HM, is beyond me.

 

[ahmedzee]

Can any indian admit that they dropped the payload on trees while trying to gain speed and get out of Pakistani airspace. If this was a highly populated area, the payload would've been dropped on so many innocents. How can any one of 1.4B indian sleep at night thinking about that? I am talking about india dropping bombs on innocent children, women and elderly.

 

[Kashmirilion]

Can any indian admit that they dropped the payload on trees while trying to gain speed and get out of Pakistani airspace. If this was a highly populated area, the payload would've been dropped on so many innocents. How can any one of 1.4B indian sleep at night thinking about that? I am talking about india dropping bombs on innocent children, women and elderly.

How many innocent people are dying in Kashmir and they don't give a crap. You expect Indians to care if innocent people in Pakistan die come on bro wake up to reality.

 

[rhony]

Does this mean that NTRO hacked into Pak mobile services? To get the data of cell towers and pin point the number of pings from 300 devices from a single location is not readily available data. Why isn't anyone questioning that?

 

[ahmedzee]

How many innocent people are dying in Kashmir and they don't give a crap. You expect Indians to care if innocent people in Pakistan die come on bro wake up to reality.

true! I agree with you. And I am still appalled at the indian perspective that it is "ok" to torture and kill kashmiris daily. Things has to change internationally so make a difference.