Islamabad: Pakistan’s high-level security huddle on Wednesday discussed the situation arising out of the Indian missile attack.
Indian armed forces early Wednesday carried out missile strikes on nine terror targets in Pakistan under Operation Sindoor.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif presided over the National Security Council (NSC) meeting, which was attended by cabinet ministers, chief ministers, all services chiefs and senior officers.
The NSC meeting lasted for more than two hours and discussed the security situation at length.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday the country’s top national security body had authorized its armed forces to take “corresponding actions” in response to Indian strikes inside Pakistani territory.
Earlier, the Pakistan army said 31 people were killed and 57 injured in the Indian strikes launched shortly after midnight in Pakistan.
Army spokesman Lt Gen Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry claimed “no time Indian aircraft was allowed to enter Pakistan and no Pakistani aircraft entered India. All Pakistan Air Force (PAF) assets are safe.”
Operation Sindoor was launched in retaliation for the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22 that killed 26 people.
