Pakistan has dismissed the surgical strikes video footage calling it "a figment of India's imagination. " The Indian media broadcast the alleged surgical strike videos on Wednesday through out the day. The video footage played by news channels also triggered a war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress attacked the BJP government for the footage being showed and shared on news channels and called it fake.

Video clips of surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army on September 29, 2016 emerged and were broadcast on several news channels on Wednesday night. These clips showed how the Army jawans killed terrorists in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and destroyed bunkers.

Visuals of surgical strikes were reportedly recorded by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Thermal Imaging (TI) cameras used by the Army to monitor the operation. “The videos are real. I can confirm that,” Lt General D S Hooda (retd), former Northern Army Commander who was directly in-charge of the surgical strikes told a leading daily.

Nearly 10 days after militants attacked the Army base camp in Uri that left 18 jawans dead on September 18, 2016, India conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and destroyed terrorist launch pads and killed many terrorists.

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday engaged in a war of words over videos of surgical strikes that were broadcast on several news channels last night. While the Congress accused the BJP of playing politics over jawans' sacrifices, the ruling party asked why the government shouldn't release such videos.

"The ruling party will have to remember that they cannot make the sacrifice of the Army a tool to garner votes for them. It is the soldiers who sacrificed their lives and it is Modi ji who was glorified," Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said on surgical strikes videos. He added that wherever Modi government starts failing they misuse the valour of the Army for their political benefit.

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