Top Security Committee Meets At PM Modi’s Residence To Discuss Pahalgam Attack

New Delhi:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a crucial meet of the Cabinet Committee of Security or CCS to discuss the shocking terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that has cost 26 lives, and formulate India’s response to it. Union defence minister Rajnath Singh has already issued warning that there will be retaliation, which will be appropriate and swift.   

Union minister Amit Shah, who was in Srinagar earlier today, reached the venue after landing in Delhi. Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and foreign minister S Jaishankar are also attending the meeting. 

Terrorists had opened fire at the meadow of Baisaran — a tourist hotspot near Kashmir’s Pahalgam — yesterday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in what is the deadliest attack in the Kashmir Valley since the 2019 Pulwama strike. Twenty-six people, most of them tourists coming from across 14 states, were killed. Two of the tourists were foreigners. 

The attack has sent shock waves across the country and many world leaders have sent messages of condolence. 

Earlier today, Mr Singh issued a strong warning. 

Without naming Pakistan, he said, “I assure people that the Government of India will take every step that is necessary and appropriate. And we will not only get those who have carried out this incident, we will also reach out to those who, sitting behind the scenes, have conspired to commit such nefarious acts on the soil of India”.

PM Modi, who cut short his visit to Saudi Arabia and was back in Delhi this morning, has condemned the attack and vowed to bring the guilty to book.

Earlier, after two major terror attacks at Uri and Pulwama, India had hit back, conducting a surgical strike and air strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control.