The Indian Air Force (IAF) executed ‘Operation Bandar’ on February 26, 2019, in retaliation to the 2016 Pulwama terror attack. In order to conduct the ‘pre-emptive strike’ on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) camp in Pakistan`s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, twelve Mirage 2000 fighter planes crossed the border.

To avenge the deaths of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers who were killed when a JeM terrorist rammed an explosive-laden car into the paramilitary force`s convoy in southern Kashmir`s Pulwama district on February 14, 2016, India launched the attack on the JeM camp.