11. Only one Para soldier was slightly injured in the mission and no one was left behind
This is remarkable because the military planning had also taken into account the number of soldiers who could lose their lives in the mission. In fact, this was one of the major reasons why the Indian political establishment was particularly proud of the success of the surgical strikes.
12. On their way back, the Major and his men took a longer route to fool the Pakistani soldiers who were expecting the SF on the shorter route.
13. Pakistani soldiers fired everything from sniper rounds to rocket launchers to mortars, but could not hit a single SF jawan
It was a landmine which caused the only injury suffered by the Para SF.
14. All the Para SF crossed over the LoC at 4.30 am, 36 hours after they had left for their historic mission.