Almost a week after the surgical strikes carried out by Indian forces along the Line of Control, some eyewitnesses have come forward to give their accounts of how bodies of the terrorists shot dead in clashes were secretly loaded onto trucks for burials. According to an Indian Express report, the eyewitnesses have also described the fire exchange that took place between Indian armed forces and the terrorists on September 29. For the first time, information on some of the locations targeted during the strikes were also provided which were not made public by India and Pakistan. The report says five witnesses were contacted by the newspaper and two of them have given detailed account of how they saw gutted houses in Dudhnial, a small hamlet some 4 km across the LoC. It is close to India’s nearest forward post, Gulab, near Kupwara. One of the eyewitnesses was informed by the local residents about loud explosions and rounds fired possibly from 84-mm Carl Gustav rifles heard from across the Al-Haawi bridge late in the night of the operation.

Another eyewitness said five to six bodies were loaded on to a truck early next morning after the strikes. They could have been taken to the nearest major Lashkar camp at Chalhana across the Neelum river, on the Indian side, he added.

However, this is completely contradictory to what some of the foreign newspapers have reported earlier. According to a Washington Post report, local residents near the Line of Control have denied any strikes by Indian armed forces.

During multiple interviews conducted, residents of the Bhimber, Chamb and Sahmani districts adjoining the Line of Control said that they have not seen anything that supports India's claim.

Since the beginning, Pakistani officials have denied India’s claims of conducting surgical strikes. To strengthen their claim, Pakistan army also took international and local media persons to the site to show that no surgical strikes were carried out as claimed by India.