Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured to punish those behind the Uri terror attack. (Source: PTI Photo/File) Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured to punish those behind the Uri terror attack. (Source: PTI Photo/File)

Continuing his stand to take firm action against the perpetrators of the deadly Uri attack, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met with the Indian Army, Navy and the Air Force Chiefs of Staff.

Apart from Chief of Army Staff General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Vice-Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Chief Marshall Arup Raha, the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was also present for the meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi.

Prime Minister will fly to Kerala, where he will address party office-bearers in Kozhikode and is expected to break his silence on the government’s response to the terror attack on the Army base. Immediately after the Uri attack, the Prime Minister had vowed in a strongly worded tweet that he will not let the perpetrators go “unpunished.”

Earlier, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had asserted that the Prime Minister’s promise to punish those behind the Uri terror attack would not remain just words.

Last Sunday, a militant attack on an army base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, has claimed the lives of eighteen soldiers. While 17 soldiers died on Sunday, the army confirmed that one more critically injured soldier succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 18

The armed militants lobbed grenades into their tents and barracks, while the soldiers were sleeping. The ensuing fire led to a large number of casualties. Twenty-eight injured soldiers are being treated at a military hospital.

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