Pak media claim over surgical strikes concocted and baseless : MEA
"The News International Pakistan's story titled "Indian FS admits surgical strikes was a bluff is completely concocted and baseless," MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in a statement.
The Pak media story claims that India's foreign secretary S Jaishankar told the German ambassador in Delhi that no surgical strikes took place on terrorist camps in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (POK).
Pakistan has been consistently saying that what India calls a surgical strike+ was merely routine fire along the Line of Control.
The MW statement said the German Ambassador Dr. Martin Ney was in the group of foreign envoys briefed by the Foreign Secretary on September 29 on the surgical strikes. "They have had no further conversation since on this subject," it said.
Meanwhile, NEWS 18 quoted the German embassy in New Delhi as saying that the Pakistani newspaper report on a purported conversation between its ambassador and the Indian Foreign Secretary denying surgical strikes in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is "without truth".
"The story in The News is unfounded and without truth," the acting spokesperson of the German embassy in New Delhi told News18 on Friday.
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