<h1>Nation adopts tougher cross-border military response and long-term defence plan focusing on drones, precision weapons, and self-reliance by 2035</h1> The state announced a hardened security posture authorizing robust cross-border military responses to terrorism, citing a recent operation that used drones and precision munitions to strike terrorist camps in a neighboring territory and allegedly killed over 100 militants while repelling retaliatory unmanned and missile attacks. It unveiled a long-term defence initiative aimed at domestic research, predictive warfare technologies, and precision countermeasures to provide a national security shield by 2035, alongside substantial increases in defence spending, record domestic production and export growth, and policy tools to replace imports with indigenously developed items to bolster deterrence and self-reliance.