On Thursday, the Indian Army said that it had carried out a series of "surgical strikes" along the Line of Control the previous night on "terror launchpads". Ranbir Singh, Director General of Military Operations, said that the Army had received inputs about terrorists planning to cross into India and decided to strike before they could.

"The operations were basically focused to ensure that these terrorists do not succeed in their design of infiltration and carrying out destruction and endangering the lives of the citizens of our country," Singh said.

The strikes were carried out 10 days after gunmen attacked an Army camp in Kashmir's Uri sector, killing 18 Indian soldiers.

However, Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations denied that these strikes had occured and dismissed the incident as cross-border fire instead.

As was to be expected, social media users in both countries reacted strongly to the news. While Indians on micro-blogging site Twitter celebrated the attack with humour bordering on jingoism as others congratulated the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, those on the Pakistani side denied any such attacks and made fun of India's claims.

Here's a sample.

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