New Delhi, Sept. 19 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a high-level meeting attended by top ministers and other officials over the deadly terror attack in Uri. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag besides other senior officials attended the meeting. The Defence Minister and the Army Chief had visited Kashmir after the terror attack on Sunday. Heavily armed militants suspected to be from Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad had on Sunday stormed an army base in Uri in Kashmir, killing 17 jawans. India had reacted strongly to the deadliest attack on the Army in Jammu & Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency that sparked an outrage with the Prime Minister strongly condemning it.

Source: The Telegraph September 19, 2016 07:49 UTC