IAF strike: Twitter turns battleground as memes, one-liners come thick and fast

As India struck a JeM training camp in Pakistan early Tuesday, Twitter transformed into nothing less than a social media battleground with users deploying Bollywood references, clever words, humour and other arrows in their arsenal to make their point.

Both Indians and Pakistanis jumped at the opportunity to get down to action on the micro-blogging site, and in no time hashtags like #surgicalstrike2, #indiastrikespakistan, #indiastrikesback were topping the trending list.

Memes, videos and one-liners came thick and fast.

One of the most popular tweets from this side of the border was a tweaked version of a dialogue from the Bollywood film "Uri: The Surgical Strike".

"How's the Jaish?/Dead Sir," several twitter users wrote and many others retweeted.

The oft-quoted dialogue from the hit film is, "How's the josh? High Sir."
"PAF: Sleep tight because PAF is awake. Reply from IAF: 3:30am, Jaag ke kya ukhaad liya? (What did you achieve by being awake?) #Surgicalstrike2."
Retweeting Pakistan Defence's post, he wrote, "This one will be filed under 'tweets we wish we hadn't put out but can't delete now'. Don't worry we all have them just not on this scale perhaps."
A large number of tweets circulated pictures of bombing shared by Major General Asif Ghafoor, director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, captioned, "Payload of hastily escaping Indian aircrafts fell in open."
Sharing the same images, a user wrote, "#SurgicalStrike2 my foot Indian's April Fool day."
Another post read, "Are you sure! that ..these trees are terrorist...?????? #Surgicalstrike2"