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.