PM Narendra Modi chaired a meeting, which was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, NSA Ajit Doval, CDS General Anil Chauhan, Chiefs of the armed forces and senior officials.

The cessation of military operations on land sea and air from 1700h today is a most welcome development. However we must continue to maintain the pressure on other fronts to reach a permanent long lasting solution. We cannot keep having an incident based response and losing lives