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Meanwhile, IAF chief BS Dhanoa on Monday declined to comment on the death toll in the Balakot strike, saying it was for the government to provide details on the number of terrorists killed 

We have now established that it was Balakot not Balakote that was hit. Why is this important? Mostly because Pakistan will tend to play down anything that hits it severely. For example, the Kargil retreat negotiated by Nawaz Sharif was portrayed as nothing much and the casualties of that war which Sharif claimed were greater than the 1965 war were suppressed completely with funerals held in secret. Clearly then, the blow is severe

In a briefing held in Beijing, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lu Kang, responding to a question that India had carried out a “non-military” strike, asked both sides to exercise restraint and resolve problems through talks.