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Given below is a report with four blanks. Fill those with the options provided in P, Q, R, S, in correct order, to make the report sensible.

New Delhi, 15 August: With cross-border firing threatening to mar their nascent peace overtures,

____ (I) ___that while it still stood by the Ufa sentiment, unprovoked firing from across the border would evoke an effective and forceful retaliation by Indian troops.

The warning was____ (II) ____in which foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, home minister Rajnath Singh and their defence counterpart Manohar Parikkar participated.

The review meeting was held after protest and counter protest by both sides in which both countries accused each other of resorting to unprovoked firing.

____ (III) ____of the border. Responding to

Pakistan's allegation that an Indian drone flew into its airspace, Jaishankar said it was a Chinese drone available off the shelf.

Emphasizing on the seriousness of the unprovoked

Pakistani firing. National Security Advisor Ajit K Doval spoke to Pakistan High Commissioner Abdul Basil

Doval warned that India would retaliate if it continued. _____ (IV) ______next morning mentioning that there had been casualties and damage on the Pakistani side.

P: delivered by foreign secretary S Jaishankar after a high-level review meeting on Paki- stan

Q: "Accordingly, Wednesday night, our forces retaliated," said Jaishankar, adding that Basit spoke to the NSA

R: Pakistan claimed that the firing had killed four civilians on its side

S: India on Thursday warned Pakistan

A)  SQRP

B)  SRQP

C)  SRPQ

D)  SPRQ

E)  None of these