Tensions flared up between India and Pakistan after the convoy of 78 buses, in which around 2500 CRPF personnel were travelling from Jammu to Srinagar, came under attack.
It
was around 3.
Around
40 CRPF personnel were killed when their convoy was targeted by the
suicide bomber of Pakistan-backed Jaish-e-Mohammad
in Pulwama district.
Tensions
flared up between India and Pakistan after the convoy of 78 buses, in
which around 2500 CRPF personnel were travelling from Jammu to
Srinagar, came under attack.
Nationwide
protests erupted against the dastardly terror attack even as the
country bid goodbye to its bravehearts. Leaders across the party
lines and civil society condemned the attack and called for an
appropriate response.
"I
feel the same fire in my heart that's raging inside you," Prime
Minister Narendra Modi would declare on February 17, days after the
attack took place.
A
day before, he had said that "all tears will be avenged"
and the armed forces have been given "full freedom to decide the
place, time, intensity and nature of the retaliation against the
enemy".
United
Nations and several countries from across the globe condemned the
Pulwama
terror attack and extended their support to India in the fight
against terrorism.
China,
the "all-weather friend" of Pakistan also backed the United
Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on the "heinous and
cowardly" Pulwama terror attack that was unanimously adopted by
permanent and non-permanent member countries of the global body.
Following
the dastardly attack, India had launched extensive diplomatic efforts
to get JeM chief Masood Azhar designated as a global terrorist, which
finally became a reality on May 1 when China lifted its technical
hold on a proposal introduced by the US, the UK, and France in the
1267 Committee of the UN Security Council.
Around
12 days after the terror attack, in the wee hours of February 26,
Indian Air Force jets bombed the JeM camp in Balakot, in Pakistan's
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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