Pakistan should be worried if there is a terror attack in India: IAF Chief

India's military may respond across the border if a terrorist attack linked to Pakistan happens again on our soil, said Air Force chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria on Monday. "Whenever there's a terror attack on our soil, Pakistan should be worried and that they were rightly worried. they need to prevent abetting terrorism in India if they need to urge out of those worries," said Bhadauria when he was asked if the neighbouring country should fear retaliation for the encounter in Handwara in Jammu and Kashmir. He also said that the armed force is consistently able to deliver whenever called upon by the govt . When asked if the Air Force is prepared to require out any terrorist camp or launchpad across the road of Control Bhadauria said, "If things demands so, of course, Indian Air Force is prepared 24x7." Two senior army officers - a colonel and a major- were among five security personnel killed in action during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district in May. military officer Colonel Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj Sood, Naik Rajesh Kumar, and Lance Naik Dinesh from the 21 Rashtriya Rifles unit were a part of the safety operation; policeman Shakeel Ahmad Qazi was also with them. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had earlier said that the Balakot airstrikes conducted by the IAF had sent out a transparent message that infrastructure across the border couldn't be used as safe havens for terrorists. "If we've to be prepared for the tasks assigned to us, then it is vital we maintain credible deterrence at land, air, and sea in the least times," Singh had said. The strike by India's warplanes on a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp in Pakistan on February 26 to avenge the killing of 40 paramilitary personnel in Kashmir and therefore the Pakistani Air Force's subsequent retaliation subsequent day triggered fears of a war between the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours.