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Screengrab from video showing suspected drones in Samba amid blackout. Photo courtesy: X/ANI

Suspected drones spotted in J&K's Samba district shortly after PM Modi's address: Report

| @indiablooms | May 12, 2025, at 11:23 pm

Srinagar/IBNS: Suspected drones were spotted and engaged over Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Monday shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the nation, India Today reported quoting defence sources.

However, the defence sources said that there was no need to be alarmed.

A video shared by the news agency ANI showed the drones being intercepted by India's air defence system in Samba amid a blackout.
 
 

This comes even after India and Pakistan have agreed that both sides will refrain from engaging in any aggressive action and no shots will be fired after the military operations chiefs of the two countries spoke on a hotline for the first time on Monday since the ceasefire.

Tensions between the two archrivals soared high after the Indian Armed Forces hit terror launchpads in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) last week as a part of Operation Sindoor in response to the deadly Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 civilians' lives.

India has blamed Pakistan for the attack, which was denied by Islamabad.

"Issues related to continuing the commitment that both sides must not fire a single shot or initiate any aggressive and inimical action against each other were discussed. It was also agreed that both sides consider immediate measures to ensure troop reduction from the borders and forward areas," the Eastern Command, one of the six operational commands of the Indian Army, Central Public Relations Office (CPRO) said in a statement.

The suspected drones were spotted on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent out a loud message against terrorism and "terror-backing state" Pakistan, stating that India will not tolerate any such misadventure or give in to nuclear blackmailing, and instead deliver a befitting reply in its own terms.

Reiterating that India has zero tolerance against terrorism, Modi said, "Our fight against terrorism is not over. We have just paused our action for now, and we will measure every move taken by Pakistan to deal with them in the future."

"Operation Sindoor has scripted a new normal that India will give a befitting reply to terrorism if we are attacked. We will strike at those places from where terrorism originates," he said.

"Secondly, we will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. Attack on India will be met with a befitting reply, and the response will be on our terms. Thirdly, we will not see terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism as different. We will take action against anyone backing terrorism. Operation Sindoor has set a new benchmark," the PM said.

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