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A matter of semantics

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Business Standard New Delhi
While Bharatiya Janata Party legislators and activists have refrained from making a public show of their happiness after the Indian military launched "surgical strikes" against Pakistani terror bases across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, many of them have been unable to define what a "surgical strike" really meant.

A former minister in Mumbai was heard telling his party men that the term stood for "a surgery conducted by a qualified surgeon on a patient suffering from a dreaded disease". He did not stop there, hinting that "more such surgeries were expected in the days to come".

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First Published: Oct 03 2016 | 9:10 PM IST

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