PM Modi chairs meeting on LoC situation: Latest developments
In the past 24 hours, at least two ceasefire violations have been reported along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistani Army has admitted India has hit back with punitive strikes, killing two of their soldiers.
In Short
- Modi chairs a meet of Cabinet Committee on Security over LoC situation.
- Two ceasefire violations reported along LoC in last 24 hours.
- Pak Army admitted India hit back with punitive strikes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) over the situation on the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan in the wake of repeated ceasefire violations by the Pakistani Army.
In the past 24 hours, at least two ceasefire violations have been reported along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The Pakistani Army has admitted India has hit back with punitive strikes, killing two of their soldiers.
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- External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval attended the meeting, apart from the top brass from the Army and intelligence agencies.
- An unprecedented joint press conference addressed by the top brass of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Army will followed the CCS meeting.
- Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with Indian forces across the de facto border in the disputed region of Kashmir today, the Pakistani army said, as tensions between the two neighbours remain high.
- The exchange of fire took place in the Bhimber, Hot Spring, Kel and Lipa sectors, and lasted about six hours early today, the Pakistani military's press wing said in a statement.
- The Indian Army has confirmed that there had been shelling from the Pakistani side of the border in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district.
- Another meeting scheduled today and to be chaired by PM Modi on the review of Pakistan's Most Favoured Nation (MFN) has been moved to next week.
- On Tuesday, India had announced that it was pulling out of the SAARC summit scheduled in Islamabad in November after the September 18 cross-border terror attack on an Indian Army base in Uri.
- India's campaign to isolate Pakistan has been backed by Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, who have also declined to attend the SAARC summit in Islamabad.
- The US has also reiterated that Pakistan must "take effective action to combat and delegitimise" UN-designated terrorists and terror groups.
- US National Security Advisor Susan E Rice spoke to her Indian counterpart Ajit Doval last night and "strongly condemned" the Uri terror attack.
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