Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a high-level meet at his Delhi residence – to review the ongoing fallout of last week’s Pahalgam terror attack and the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval are attending.
The meeting comes a day before the PM-chaired Cabinet Committee on Security, the government’s highest decision-making body on national security matters, is due to meet.
Pahalgam Terror Attack
Twenty-six people were killed in the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22.
The Resistance Front, an offshoot of banned, Pak-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, has claimed responsibility, but the five terrorists who carried out the attack remain at large.
A massive manhunt is underway to track them down.
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Indian security agencies have evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the attack; last week this material was shown to foreign diplomats from the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and major European nations.
Since the attack India and Pakistan have traded diplomatic restrictions, including suspension of visas and bilateral deals like the Simla Agreement and the Indus Waters Treaty, in the first round of responses.
The Prime Minister, who was in Saudi Arabia at the time of the attack, and rushed back 24 hours later, his plane avoiding Pak airspace, has said terror’s evil agenda won’t be allowed to win.