A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) is currently taking place at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit Shah present.
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00:00The Prime Minister's strong message to forces, full operational freedom.
00:05After the Pahlgahm terror attack, the Prime Minister chaired a high-level security review meeting at his residence
00:11with the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Oval,
00:15Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan and three military chiefs.
00:20Sources say during the meeting, the Prime Minister granted full operational freedom to the forces to decide its reply.
00:26It's more targets and timing of India's military response to the Pahlgahm terror attack.
00:33Amid this, the Indian Armed Forces are maintaining a high state of operational readiness on all fronts amid heightened tensions with Pakistan.
00:42IOS Sager made a significant and engaging port call at Port Louis, Mauritius from 26th of April to 28th
00:49as part of its operational deployment in the Indian Ocean in a series of high-level deliberations.
00:56Following the recent attack, Senator's call for crucial meeting, the first one has just started.
01:02Cabinet Committee on Security to discuss national security, to discuss Pahlgahm has already started.
01:10This meeting, Aishwarya will be key from the point of view of deliberating on India's strategic response.
01:18What all has been done, what all can be done and how swiftly can it be done?
01:30And we also need to make sure that in our response to Pakistan, it is India that does not suffer.
01:35So that's also something that the government needs to very closely look at.
01:38Caution is something that the government now is looking at and that's the reason why we are seeing these back-to-back meetings taking place.
01:44They are on one side, we know we need to give a befitting response to Pakistan.
01:48Pakistan, from where these stupid remarks are now coming out, where they are saying that they are now ready,
01:54that there should be mutual investigation that should now take place.
01:58We have evidence, evidence of those places, those hideouts, where these terrorists actually got the training.
02:04And we also understand now how they got into Kashmir.
02:07So those are the things that are now being looked at.
02:09Jaisa Mohamed, Rashkar-e-Taiba, Hezbollah Mujahideen.
02:13Now these are the outfits that the Indian government will very closely be looking at.
02:16Hafiz Saeed is one other name, Neha, let me tell you, that is on the top of the agency's list.
02:21So those are the things that the government now is looking at.
02:23And also let me tell you, Adil Thokar, the government looks at him and they believe,
02:30they have evidence to believe that he's the mastermind behind this attack.
02:33Training was being given, recce was being done.
02:36So the government now understands everything.
02:38The NIA, as we are speaking, Neha, statements are being done, recce is being done.
02:42And some of the survivors, in fact, they have been taken back to that spot, the Baisaran Valley,
02:47where unfortunately this attack took place.
02:48A recreation of everything is being done.
02:51So the government is making sure that they have a watertight case.
02:55And with regards to that, with this case, with the evidence,
02:58we will tell the world community what exactly has happened in Baisaran Valley
03:02and who's responsible for it.
03:04So that's something that the government is looking at.
03:05But Indian growth, Indian economy should not get hurt in the process.
03:09That's also something that the government is very keenly looking at.
03:12And that's the reason why we have the cabinet meeting also taking place today.
03:16But like the last time, after the CCS,
03:18we have seen how India has taken stringent measures against Pakistan.
03:22After the CCS meeting also, we will see more stringent action being taken.
03:26All right, Aishwarya getting us those details, telling us about the manner in which the CCS is being held today.
03:33And there are a series of other important meetings.
03:35Now, condemning the Pahlgam terror massacre,
03:38Prime Minister Narendra Modi, remember, had vowed to deliver justice to the families of the victims,
03:43as well as promised the harshest form of punishment for the terrorists behind the April 22nd attack.
03:49And promised to crush the patron of terrorists stressing on the nation's unity
03:53and resolve in the face of terrorism.
03:56Isn't it?