India-Pakistan Ceasefire LIVE: PM Modi outlines new anti-terror doctrine, says no tolerance for nuclear blackmail; Foreign Secretary to brief parliamentary panel on Pakistan

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, saying he made clear the country’s resolve to strike back the very moment its enemies dared to make a mistake.

In his first address to the nation after Operation Sindoor, the prime minister sternly warned Pakistan that India would not succumb to “nuclear blackmail” and sent a clear message to the world that terror and trade, terror and talks could not go together.

“Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji today demarcated the boundary for Bharat’s enemies through the example of Operation Sindoor, in which our armed forces razed the very edifice of terrorism in Pakistan’s backyard,” Shah said in a post on X.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation and said it is a “clear declaration of new India’s policy against terrorism”.

Asserting that India would not tolerate any “nuclear blackmail”, Prime Minister Modi earlier said that operations against Pakistan had only been kept in abeyance and the future would depend on the neighbouring country’s behaviour.

“The Honourable Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji’s address today is a clear declaration of New India’s policy against terror,” Adityanath said on X.

Low-cost carrier IndiGo has issued a travel advisory announcing the cancellation of all flights to and from Jammu, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Leh, Srinagar, and Rajkot for May 13, 2025.

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri will brief a parliamentary committee next week on the India-Pakistan military conflict in the aftermath of the terror attack in Pahalgam.

Members of the Standing Committee on External Affairs have been informed that Misri would brief the panel on May 19.

The meeting comes in the backdrop of the Indian Armed Forces launching Operation Sindoor to avenge the Pahalgam attack and the subsequent military actions by the two countries against each other.

In trying to portray a globally sanctioned terrorist as a “common man”, Pakistan was exposed when its top official publically outed crucial details about Hafiz Abdul Rauf, including his national identity number which matched details in the database of the US sanction list of terrorists.

Pakistan’s Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry in a press conference made an attempt to portray Rauf as a common man with “three daughters, son” who had led the prayers of terrorists killed at the Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarter in Mudrike, Pakistan’s Punjab, during Operation Sindoor.

During the presentation, Chaudhry gave his Computerized National Identity Card number 35202-5400413-9 besides giving his date of birth March 25, 1973 and that he was a resident of Lahore.

The Pakistani finance minister has claimed that the conflict with India won’t have a large fiscal impact on Pakistan and can be managed within the current fiscal space, with no need for a new economic assessment.

In an interview with Reuters, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said that the India-Pakistan conflict is a “short duration escalation” with minimal fiscal impact. Expert analysis from Moody’s has said otherwise .

In a post on social media platform X, Shashi Tharoor said, “Mr Trump’s post is disappointing for India in four important ways: First, it implies a false equivalence between the victim and the perpetrator, and seemingly overlooks the US’ own past unwavering stance against Pakistan’s well-documented links to cross-border terrorism. Second, it offers Pakistan a negotiating framework which it certainly has not earned. India will never negotiate with a terrorist gun pointed at its head. Third, it “internationalises” the Kashmir dispute, an obvious objective of the terrorists. India rejects the idea of a dispute and sees the problem as an internal affair of India’s. India has never requested, not is likely to seek, any foreign country’s mediation over its problems with Pakistan. And fourth, it “re-hyphenates” India and Pakistan in the global imagination. For decades now, world leaders had been encouraged not to club their visits to India with visits to Pakistan, and starting with President Clinton in 2000, no US President had done so. This is a major backward step.”

Indian air defence systems reportedly neutralised drones in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba area, which remained under blackout on Monday night. ANI reported that bright red spots were visible in the night sky and explosions were heard.

DG CISF and all ranks of the paramilitary force on Monday paid heartfelt tribute to the personnel who laid made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty during Operation Sindoor.

Alluding to the constant threat of usage of nuclear weapons by Pakistani politicians and military top brass alike, PM Modi said, “No nuclear blackmail will be tolerated anymore.”

He added, “Terrorist attack on India will have to face a befitting reply, and the response will be on our terms.”

Highlights of PM’s speech in English:

• PM dedicates the success of Operation Sindoor to India’s Nari Shakti. This is noteworthy because several women and children saw family members being butchered in the most cold-blooded manner by the terrorists.
• PM publicly calls out the entire terror apparatus of Pakistan, calls Bahawalpur and Muridke as Universities of terror.
• PM says that Pakistan tried to remove the Sindoor of our women, we uprooted their universities of terror itself.
• PM confirms that Indian Armed Forces targeted over 100 terrorists. Clearly, Pakistan has been repaid in a language that they understand.
• PM exposes the hollowness of the Pakistani Army, which is nothing compared to the Indian Armed Forces.
• PM does not rule out further action on Pakistani sponsored terror, makes it clear that even now, every inch of land in which terror is encouraged by Pakistan is within the reach of our Armed Forces.
• PM makes it clear that it was Pakistan than came begging for peace! It was Pakistan which was bearing the brunt of the Indian onslaught, forcing their DGMO to reach out to their counterpart in India.
• PM clearly states Operation Sindoor is not over! India will give back to terror and their backers in a language they understand.
• PM clearly states the new normal now- India will answer back, nuclear blackmail won’t work, no difference between terrorists and those who patronise them whoever they, wherever they are.

General Ved Malik (Retd), former Chief of Army Staff, took to social media platform X on Monday (May 12) to say Pakistan Army can be threatened from three directions if it continues its “proxy war doctrine”.

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India’s air defence network employs a combination of “soft kill” and “hard kill” strategies to counter a wide spectrum of aerial threats, ranging from drones to missiles and aircraft. These approaches are integrated into a multi-layered defence system, leveraging both indigenous and imported technologies.

Soft kill systems aim to neutralize threats without physically destroying them, primarily by disrupting their guidance, control, or communications. Key features include Electronic Warfare (EW). This refers to jamming enemy communications, navigation, and radar systems to confuse or misdirect incoming threats. This includes radio frequency (RF) jamming, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) jamming, and GPS spoofing, which are particularly effective against drones and precision-guided munitions.

Soft kill methods are cost-effective, can be used repeatedly, and are less likely to cause collateral damage. However, they may face challenges in reliably confirming the neutralisation (“kill assessment”) of the threat.

Hard kill systems physically destroy or intercept incoming threats using kinetic means. Key components include:

• • Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs): Systems like the S-400, Akash, and Igla-S are used to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft, drones, and missiles at various ranges.
  • Anti-Aircraft Guns: Low-level air defence (LLAD) guns and older systems like Pechora and Osa-AK provide point defence against low-flying threats.
  • Directed Energy Weapons: High-energy lasers, as part of the D4 system, can physically destroy drones and other small aerial threats when electronic disruption is insufficient.

Hard kill methods are decisive and provide clear confirmation of threat neutralization but are generally more expensive.

In a post on X, the spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that on the night of May 10, Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with Pakistan’s Deputy PM & FM Ishaq Dar and India’s NSA Shri Ajit Doval in a bid to “help bring about deescalation and a full, lasting ceasefire.”

“China will maintain communication with India and Pakistan,” the post said.

The Indian Armed Forces, at a press briefing on May 12, provided a sneak peek into India’s robust air defence system.

In a comprehensive briefing, India’s Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMOs) detailed how the country’s advanced, multi-layered air defence system successfully countered Pakistan’s aerial attacks after Operation Sindoor. This came as India-Pakistan ceasefire remained intact without a major incident on the third day of its implementation.

The IAF’s AK Bharti, the director general of air force operations, and Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, the DGMO of the Indian Army, outlined the coordinated response that shielded Indian military and civilian targets from waves of drones, missiles, and fighter jets.

READ MORE: DGMOs explain how India’s multi-layered air defence system countered Pakistan’s attacks

Air Marshal Bharti, DGAO, pointed out that India’s robust Air Defence system comprises a large variety of AD sensors, and Weapon Systems- from point defence weapons like the LLAD guns, shoulder-fired MANPADS and short-range SAMS, to area defence weapons like the AD fighter ac, and longer range SAMs.

Additionally, the numerous waves of drones and UCAVs employed by Pakistan were also thwarted by the indigenously developed soft and hard-kill Counter-UAS systems and the well-trained Indian AD personnel. All this was brought together as an efficient and effective Air Defence environment, by the Integrated Air Command & Control System (IACCS) of the lAF, which accords us Net-Centric Op capability.

“I would like to also mention that, putting together and operationalisation of this potent AD environment has been possible over the last decade, due to unwavering budgetary and policy support provided by the Gol, in acquiring state-of-the art equipment and weapon systems,” he said.

The Indian Air Force has dispelled speculation that it hit Kirana Hills, which is rumoured to be home to Pakistan’s nuclear stores.

At a press briefing on Operation Sindoor, Air Marshal AK Bharti, Director General of Air Force Operations, categorically denied any such action, stating, “We did not hit Kirana Hills, whatever is there”. He also said, possibly as a joke, that IAF did not know there werenuclear stores at Kirana Hills.