Pahalgam Attack: PM Modi Chairs High-level Meet; Tri-Services Chiefs, NSA Doval Present
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Terrorists opened fire in Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam, killing 26 people, mostly Hindus in one of the deadliest terror attacks in the Valley in recent years
Pahalgam Terror Attack: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a high-level security meeting at his residence in New Delhi amid tensions with Pakistan over the dastardly terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam last week where 26 people, including one Nepalese national, were killed.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, Chief of Defence Services (CDS) General Anil Chauhan, Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal (ACM) AP Singh, Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi, and Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi were present in the meeting at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg in the capital.
The meeting comes ahead of the crucial meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on Wednesday. PM Modi had chaired the CCS meeting on April 23 evening, immediately after he returned from his curtailed Saudi Arabia.
Terrorists opened fire in Baisaran meadow of Pahalgam, killing 26 people, mostly Hindus in one of the deadliest terror attacks in the Valley in recent years
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