Modi told Vance India would hit hard, Pak called US after its bases damaged

The Indian precision strikes on Pakistani air bases early Saturday came hours after US Vice President J D Vance called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the night of May 9 and shared information about “alarming intelligence” that there was a “high probability for dramatic escalation if the conflict went into the weekend”.

It is learnt that the Prime Minister told Vance that India’s response would be “harder, deeper and bigger” to any Pakistani misadventure. And the Indian armed forces struck after Pakistan attempted to hit 26 locations on India’s northern and western frontiers.