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Pahalgam Terror Attack: Amit Shah, who visited the ground zero earlier today, briefed the meeting on the attack and discussed the measures to be taken in its aftermath.
PM Modi chairs the meeting of CCS. (News18)
Pahalgam Terror Attack: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) to take stock of the situation and deliberate on the government’s strategy, in wake of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam carnage that killed 26 tourists.
Besides the Prime Minister, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar were present at the meeting, along with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Cabinet Secretary TV Somanathan, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misry, besides PM Modi’s two principal secretaries PK Mishra and Shaktikanta Das.
Amit Shah, who visited the ground zero earlier today, briefed the meeting on the attack and discussed the measures to be taken in its aftermath.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is also part of the CCS, could not attend the meeting as she is on her way back from the United States after cutting short her official visit in the wake of the terror attack.
Earlier today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited the Baisaran Valley, where the terror attack took place in Pahalgam yesterday. He had arrived at the spot on a chopper and took stock of the situation. Shah had also paid last respects to the victims of the terror attack earlier in the day and also met the families of the victims.
Earlier this morning, PM Modi returned to New Delhi, cutting short his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, and held an emergency meeting with NSA Ajit Doval, EAM Dr S Jaishankar.
In one of the biggest attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Lashkar-linked terrorists opened fire on a group of tourists in Pahalgam on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people, including foreign tourists, and injuring many others. The Resistance Front (TRF), a Lashkar offshoot, took responsibility for the attack.
Terrorists targeted a group of people, including women and elderly individuals, in the brazen attack afternoon.