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MEA trashes Pakistan paper's report on surgical strikes

Calls the report concocted and baseless

Indian army soldiers take positions during their patrol near the Line of Control in Nowshera sector, about 145 km from Jammu. Photo: PTI
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Indian army soldiers take positions during their patrol near the Line of Control in Nowshera sector, about 145 km from Jammu. <b>Photo: PTI<b/>

AgenciesBS Web Team New Delhi
India on Friday termed as "concocted and baseless" a report in Pakistani media that Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar in a meeting with the German ambassador in New Delhi had admitted that no surgical strikes were conducted by the Indian Army. 

Strongly reacting to the story in Pakistan's The News International, titled 'Indian FS admits surgical strikes was a bluff', External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said it is "completely concocted and baseless".

The German Ambassador, Martin Ney, was in the group of foreign envoys briefed by the foreign secretary on September 29 on the surgical strikes. They have had no