LIVE: PM Modi calls first cabinet meet over border security after surgical strikes at LoC

New Delhi: A day after the surgical strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to review today the situation at the LoC and the international border with Pakistan. Live updates:

• Delhi: MoS Home, Kiren Rijiju reaches MHA to attend the meeting to review internal security

 

• Security forces on high alert in border areas of Nowgam in Handwara sector (J&K)

 

• Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif chairs a cabinet meeting after India's surgical strike along LoC.

 

• PM Modi has called a Cabinet Committee meeting on Security (CCS) on Friday. The cabinet’s discussion would revolve around security at the border

 

• As the tensions have heightened, Modi is expected to assess the situation on the ground, sources said

 

• In the evening on Thursday, it was disclosed that an Indian soldier was taken into custody in the Mendhar sub-sector by the Pakistani Army. Indian Army sources said he had “inadvertently” crossed over and was not part of the cross-border action.

 

• Pakistan newspaper Dawn claimed 14 Indian soldiers were killed in two sectors. The daily had earlier reported that an Indian soldier named Chandu Babulal Chohan had been taken into custody by the Pakistani forces.

 

• On Friday, Pakistan summoned Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale over "unprovoked firing" by India in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed

 

• The Indian military expects that there will be retaliation from forces in Pakistan. The White House urged India and Pakistan to avoid escalation

  India carried out surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads across the LoC on the intervening night of September 28 and 29, with the Army saying it had inflicted "significant casualties" on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from PoK, days after Modi warned Uri attack would not go unpunished.