CRPF personnel stands guard at a marketplace in Srinagar on May 5, 2025.
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Imran Nissar

It has come to light that a group known as ‘Pakistan Cyber Force’ had gained access to sensitive data from the websites of Indian Military Engineering Service (MES) and Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (MPIDSA) and defaced the website of Armoured Vehicle Nigam Limited (AVNL), a defence public sector undertaking. 

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Also, UN chief António Guterres condemned the Pahalgam attack and he said perpetrators must be brought to justice. Urging both India and Pakistan to avoid military confrontation, he said, “make no mistake, a military solution is no solution, and I offer my good offices to both governments in the service at peace.” The UN Security Council commenced closed-door consultations on the situation between India and Pakistan, hours after Secretary General Antonio Guterres voiced concern over tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours being “at their highest in years”. 

The MHA has asked several states to conduct mock drills for effective civil defence on 7th May. The measures to be taken during the drill include operationalisation of air raid warning sirens, updation of evacuation plan & its rehearsal and training of civilians on civil defence aspects, government sources said. The Delhi government is likely to hold a meeting to discuss preparations for mock drills, following a directive from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to the States to conduct them on Wednesday (May 7, 2025) amid rising tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack. 

The Indian Army on Monday (May 5, 2025) said that multiple locations Jammu and Kashmir along the Line of Control (LoC) have come under small arms fire from the Pakistani Army. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday warned that India could carry out a military strike at any moment along the Line of Control in Kashmir.

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