PM Modi to chair CCS meeting on April 30

New Delhi: In a major development on the retaliatory move by India, an important Cabinet Committee on Security will meet tomorrow that is on April 30. According to available reports, the meeting will be held in Delhi at around 11 am tomorrow. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to chair it.

It is worth mentioning that, some big decisions are likely to be taken on the Pahalgam terror attack issue. Modi will be joined by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, NSA Chief Ajit Doval, Cabinet Secretary and Defence Secretary will be present.

In the earlier CCS meeting that was held on April 23 took various major decisions, such as:

• India decided to hold the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism.
• India has also decided to close the integrated Attari Check Post with immediate effect. Furthermore, the country has decided to cancel any visas issued under the SAARC Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) and has ordered Pakistan to leave the country within 48 hours.
• India declared the Defence/Military, Naval, and Air Advisors at the Pakistani High Commission persona non grata and ordered them to leave India within a week.
• As a security measure, India has decided to withdraw its own Defence, Navy, and Air Advisors from the Indian High Commission in Islamabad. These posts in the respective High Commissions are deemed annulled. Five support staff of the Service Advisors will also be withdrawn from both High Commissions.
• The overall strength of the high commissions will be reduced to 30 from the current 55 through further reductions, effective as of May 1, 2025. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced the decisions in a press briefing on Wednesday after the CEC meeting.