{"id":5571,"date":"2025-04-30T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2025-04-30T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:04:06","slug":"modi-gives-army-operational-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"Modi gives army &#8216;operational freedom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given India&#8217;s military &#8220;operational freedom&#8221; to respond to a deadly attack in IIOJK last week, a senior government source told AFP on Tuesday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>A week after the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested region in years, Modi on Tuesday held a closed-door meeting with army and security chiefs, during which he told the armed forces that they had the &#8220;complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets and timing of our response to the terror attack&#8221;, said the government source, who was not authorised to speak to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The government released video images of a stern-faced Modi meeting with army chiefs, as well as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have issued wanted posters for three men accused of carrying out the Kashmir attack\u0097two Pakistanis and an Indian.<\/p>\n<p>They have announced a two million rupee ($23,500) bounty for information leading to each man&#8217;s arrest and carried out sweeping detentions seeking anyone suspected of links to the alleged killers.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has already offered to mediate and Saudi Arabia has said Riyadh was trying to &#8220;prevent an escalation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump downplayed tensions, saying on Friday the dispute will get &#8220;figured out, one way or another&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given India&#8217;s military &#8220;operational freedom&#8221; to respond to a deadly attack in IIOJK last week, a senior government source told AFP on Tuesday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan. A week after the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested region in years, Modi on Tuesday held a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}