New Delhi (AMN)
Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Armed Forces were at the forefront of the nation’s defence and assured that the Government would ‘do all that is necessary to keep soldiers’ morale high and to meet their functional requirements.
‘ Extending greetings to all serving armed force personnel as well as ex-servicemen of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard, he said ‘even now our jawans continue to be vigilant on the LoC, defending the nation, as our adversary continues with its abhorrent acts.
Some of our soldiers continue to make the supreme sacrifice while defending our motherland.
‘ The nation is indebted to their martyrdom, he added in his speech to the Armed Forces personnel broadcast over All India Radio on the eve of the 71st Independence Day.
Referring to India’s Western neighbour, the minister said based on specific inputs about terrorist teams having positioned themselves at launch pads along Line of Control (LoC) to carry out infiltration and conduct terrorist strikes in Jammu and Kashmir and in various metros in other states, the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes on September 29 last year at several of these launch pads to pre-empt terrorist infiltration.