Indian ministers hold meetings to shape gov't response to terror attack

Indian officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, held a series of high-level meetings here on Monday to shape the government's response to Sunday's deadly terror attack on an army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

Highly placed sources said the government is clear that there must be a caliberated response from India to the attack on the Indian army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir, in which 17 soldiers lost their lives and over 30 others sustained injuries.

Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar briefed the prime minister in the morning, and later in the day Modi held a review meeting with Parrikar, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

The home minister separately held another meeting with the defense minister and Indian Army chief General Dalbir Singh, both of whom had visited the attacked base in Uri on which four terrorists carried out the deadly strike in the early hours of Sunday.

(APD)