PM Narendra Modi address to nation today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address the nation at 8 PM tonight (May 12), two days after India and Pakistan reached an understanding to stop all firings and military actions on land, air and sea with immediate effect. This will be the PM’s first public address since India launched Operation Sindoor to target terror bases in Pakistan and PoK.
Modi’s address will come hours after the DGMOs of India and Pakistan are set to talk at 5 pm.
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Since the Pahalgam terror attack, the PM held multiple high-level meetings with the defence top brass and was understood to have told India’s Armed Forces: “Wahan se goli chalegi, yahan say gola (if bullets are fired from the other side, we will reply with shells)”.
Terrorists killed 25 Indian and 1 Nepali civilian in the picturesque Baisaran valley in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22 leading to the highest civilian casualties in a terror attack since the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack in 2008.
India responded to the terror attack, understood to have been carried out by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists, with a host of diplomatic and non-military measures against Islamabad. The first set of measures included cancelling the Indian visa of Pakistani citizens and putting the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance.
Banning import of products and docking of ships from Pakistan followed, along with suspension of the exchange of all mail and parcels, shutting Indian airspace for flights from Pakistan and curbing the water flow through the Baglihar dam.
Then, amid rising tensions, India announced it would hold mock drills across 244 civil defence districts on May 7. But on the intervening night of May 6 and 7, India hit 9 terror sites inside Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, hitting the headquarters of multiple terrorist outfits responsible for several terror attacks on Indian soil.
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