New Delhi: Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh on Sunday met PM Narendra Modi amid escalating tensions with Pakistan in the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam last month. Modi has been meeting the chiefs of the three armed forces to take stock of India’s possible military action against Pakistan in response to the April 22 Pahalgam attack.
PM Modi held an important meeting with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Gen Anil Chauhan and other armed forces chiefs. Amid the possibility of taking military action against Pakistan, Army Chief Gen Dwivedi met PM Modi at his residence at his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence on April 30.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Doval also attended the meeting. Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi met PM Modi. The meeting lasted for an hour. On May 3, at 12 pm, Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh also met the Prime Minister for about 40 minutes. The Ordnance Factory Board has cancelled the leave of all its employees with immediate effect.
Terrorists singled out non-Muslim tourists and shot them at point-blank range after being asked to recite the Kalma, or the Islamic declaration of faith. PM Modi has vowed that his government will hunt down the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam attack and their backers “at the ends of the earth”.
India downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan and took a flurry of measures, including the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, cancelling all visas issued to Pakistani nationals and shutting airspace to Pakistani airlines.