NEW DELHI, April 29, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given India's military "operational freedom" to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week, a senior government source told AFP Tuesday, after New Delhi blamed it on nuclear-armed arch-rival Pakistan.

Modi told army and security chiefs in a closed-door meeting that it was India's "national resolve to deal a crushing blow to terrorism", the source said.

Modi said that the armed forces had the "complete operational freedom to decide on the mode, targets, and timing of our response to the terror attack on civilians in Kashmir", the source added.