PM Modi Meets Air Force Chief After Army, Navy Briefings

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held talks with Indian Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh in connection with the heinous terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, where 26 tourists were killed.

They held the talks at the Prime Minister’s official residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, where they held talks for 45 minutes. This meeting took place after PM Modi held individual meetings with the Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi and the Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi earlier.

Earlier on Saturday, Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi met the prime minister and briefed him on the overall situation in the critical sea lanes in the Arabian Sea.

Earlier this week, PM Modi had a meeting with the chief of all three wings of the Indian military in New Delhi. This meeting was also attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan.

Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the deadly terror attack that claimed 26 lives on April 22 and in view of cross-border links. The Resistance Front, or TRF, a Lashkar-e-Taiba offshoot with a bloody history, is believed to be behind the attack. Pakistan has denied responsibility for the attack.

Last week, PM Modi told the top defence brass that the armed forces have “complete operational freedom" to decide on the mode, targets and timing of India’s response to the attack.

Meanwhile, Pakistani armed forces have been continuously violating the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) for ten consecutive nights, escalating tensions across the border. The ceasefire violation by Pakistan was reported from eight places spread across five districts in the Union Territory during the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, prompting effective retaliation from the Indian Army.