Rajnath Singh Chairs Security Meet After Pakistan’s 15-City Strike Attempts

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday met Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan and three service chiefs in Delhi amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan. He chaired a high-level meeting to review the security situation along the western border and operational preparedness of the Indian Armed Forces.

Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal AP Singh and Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh also attended the meeting.

The meeting came hours after India thwarted a series of missile and drone attacks from Pakistan targeting military stations in Jammu and 14 cities, on the intervening night of 08 and 09 May. Pakistan Armed Forces launched multiple attacks using drones and other munitions along entire Western Border, the defence ministry informed.

Pakistani troops also resorted to numerous ceasefire violations (CFVs) along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the Indian armed forces have effectively repulsed drone attacks and a given a befitting reply to the CFVs.

The Army in the morning also shared a video of a Pakistani military post being destroyed across the Line of Control (LoC). Even as the armed forces didn't describe the details about the video, some reports claimed that anti-tank guided missiles were used to strike the military posts of Pakistan across the LoC.

India army remained committed to safeguarding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Nation and reiterated that all nefarious designs will be responded with force.

In the early hours of May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor hitting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned and directed. It came after terrorists killed 26 tourists on April 22 in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam.

The army said that the actions have been focused, measured and non-escalatory in nature. It added no Pakistani military facilities have been targeted. India has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution.