Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting on security. Official sources said, the meeting was attended by the Chiefs of the three Services, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Several other senior officials also attended the meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence in New Delhi.
This was the third meeting by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the service chiefs in less than 48 hours. Yesterday evening, the meeting had lasted some one hour and 20 minutes. Hostilities between the neighbours had peaked on Wednesday, with aerial combat between Indian and Pakistani warplanes for the first time in 48 years. Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was captured after the encounter.