"Its become a habit for these militants to strike at the Indian Army or paramilitary forces or citizens of the nation and then cross over into safe havens being confident of the fact that Indian Armed forces will not pursue them," he told NDTV.
"This message is now very clear for all those who harboured intentions of terror on our country. Unprecedented though, but our Prime Minister has taken a very bold step and given a go ahead for hot pursuit into Myanmar," the minister said.
Asked whether India will extend this strategy to other sectors like the western side, implying Pakistan, the minister said, "its undoubtedly a message to all nations that harbours any terror intentions, be it the west or the specific country where we went in right now.
'"Even if there are groups within a country that harbours terror intentions, we will choose the time and place of hitting them," he said.(MORE) PTI BHS VMN Two Maoist hideouts inside Myanmar were destroyed in a surgical strike by the Indian Army which used helicopters in the operation, Union Minister
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The indian forces did corss over??
We crossed over the Myanmar territory. We have good relations with them and we carried out the strike. This is crurcial support?
Indian forces did not suffer any casualties? Two cvampus completely annihilated. Not a single indian casulaty occured.