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No 'hot pursuit' in Myanmar: Minister
New Delhi, June 10
There was no "hot pursuit"
in the military operation against militants along the India-Myanmar
border and it was done with the consent of Myanmar authorities, Minister
of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh said on Wednesday.
"We did not use hot pursuit. We contacted Burma (Myanmar) authorities before the attack," Rao Inderjit said here.
The
comment comes a day after his colleague Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the "hot pursuit".
Rathore
on Tuesday said: "Our prime minister ordered hot pursuit in which two
camps were completely annihilated. While the army carried out the
strike, helicopters were on stand by."
Nitin Gadkari, a key
minister in the Modi cabinet, refused to comment on the matter at a
press conference following a meeting of the union cabinet.
"It is
clear we have zero tolerance towards terror and terror groups. The
official spokesperson of the military has given detailed information
about the action that our military has done," Gadkari said. "I do not
have anything to say beyond it."
The army launched two attacks at
different points along the Myanmar border and killed several militants.
The exact number has not been revealed.
The attack launched on Tuesday was a response to the June 4 militant ambush that killed 18 soldiers of 6 Dogra regiment.
According
to informed sources, the militant camps were situated a few kilometres
inside Myanmar, something which the Indian Army or the defence ministry
has not officially confirmed.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju, meanwhile, said the issue should not be discussed in detail.
"We
must salute the work the army did... When something is done in national
interest, we must support it and not discuss it in detail," he said.