PM Modi Chairs Security Meet with Defence Minister, NSA Doval, Three Service Chiefs

New Delhi: Almost a week after the Pahalgam terror attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (April 29) chaired a key security meeting with defence minister Rajnath Singh, national security adviser Ajit Doval, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and the chiefs of the three services at his residence.

In the meeting, Modi said that it is “our national resolve to deal a crushing blow to terrorism”, PTI reported citing government sources.

Modi is learnt to have expressed complete faith and confidence in the professional abilities of the Indian armed forces and said that they have complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets and timing of the response, the report said.

The meeting comes a day ahead of the cabinet committee on security meeting scheduled for Wednesday.

Last week, while addressing a rally in poll-bound Bihar, Modi had said that those who have conspired behind this attack will be “punished beyond their imagination” and that any of their remaining land will be “ground to dust”, and promised to identify, trace and punish every terrorist and their backers.

Also on Tuesday, Union home secretary Govind Mohan chaired a high-level meeting that was attended by the chiefs of three paramilitary forces and senior officers of two other security organisations, sources said to PTI.

Last week the Union government said in the all-party meeting convened on April 24 that despite “everything going well” in recent years including businesses running and tourism returning, the Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 civilians lost their lives was a “lapse”.

The meeting comes as the opposition has demanded a special session of parliament to discuss the Pahalgam terror attack to put forth a united voice against terrorism.

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