Pahalgam terror attack top updates: Rajnath Singh vows ‘clear response’, Pakistan denies role

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday vowed a “loud and clear response” a day after the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that killed 26 persons and left 17 others injured.

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• Singh on Wednesday chaired a high-level security review, The Times of India reported. The meeting involved the Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, and the chiefs of the Army, Navy and the Air Force. A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security, the highest decision-making body on matters of national security, will take place later on Wednesday, NDTV reported.
• “I want to assure the countrymen that the government will take every necessary step,” ANI quoted Singh as saying at an event. “We will not only reach the perpetrators of this act but also the actors behind the scenes...The accused will soon see a loud and clear response, I want to assure the country.”
• Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said that Islamabad was “concerned at the loss of tourists’ lives” in the attack. This came hours after Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif claimed on Tuesday that his country was not involved in the attack. “We have absolutely nothing to do with it,” Asif told Pakistani channel 92 News. “We reject terrorism in all its forms and everywhere.”
• However, The Indian Express quoted unidentified Indian security...

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