India, May 13 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a top meeting to review border security, hours before the Indian and Pakistani directors general of military operations spoke over hotline to discuss steps to uphold the May 10 understanding to stop military actions against each other, officials said.

He later addressed the nation too.

"We have only paused our retaliatory action against terror and military bases in Pakistan. In the coming days, every step taken by Pakistan will be monitored ... .any terror attack will get a befitting response, on our terms, in our way," Modi said in his address to the nation.

The meeting was attended by defence minister Rajnath Singh, external affairs minister S Jaishankar, national securi...