BREAKING: After Series of Terror Attacks, PM Reviews Security Situation in J&K

BREAKING: Deploy Full Spectrum of Counter-terror Capabilities, PM Modi Reviews J&K Security Amid Rise in Terror Attacks | Image:झऊघ

Srinagar: Before departing for Italy to participate in the 50th G7 leaders’ summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level review meeting on the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir. During this meeting, he discussed the deployment of security forces and ongoing counter-terrorism operations with Home Minister Amit Shah and NSA Ajit Doval, govt sources said, adding that the Prime Minister asked them to deploy the full spectrum of our counter-terror capabilities. 

The Prime Minister also held discussions with Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to assess the ground situation. He was briefed on the proactive measures being implemented by the local administration to maintain peace and security in the area. 

Digital Products Four Terror Attacks In Last Four Days

The high-level review meeting comes in the wake of recent terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. For the unversed, terrorists struck at four places in Reasi, Kathua and Doda districts over the past four days, killing nine pilgrims and a CRPF jawan and leaving seven security personnel and several others injured. 

Two suspected Pakistani terrorists were also killed in an encounter with security forces in Kathua and a large quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered from them. 

On Sunday, terrorists opened fire on a 53-seater bus carrying pilgrims when it was en route to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra from the Shiv Khori temple. The bus, ferrying pilgrims from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, plunged into a deep gorge following the gunfire, killing nine people and injuring 41 others.

On Tuesday, terrorists fired at a joint checkpost of the 4 Rashtriya Rifles and police at Chattergalla in Bhaderwah while a search party in the Gandoh area of the district was attacked on Wednesday, resulting in injuries to seven security personnel, including a policeman. 

Digital Products Massive Search Operation Underway

Meanwhile, massive search operations continued on Thursday in different districts of Jammu and Kashmir, especially Doda and Reasi, to track down and neutralise terrorists involved in recent attacks in the union territory.

According to the officials, Army, police and paramilitary forces resumed search operations in the morning in Kota top in Gandoh, Chattagalla and adjoining areas in Doda district where seven security personnel, including two policemen, were injured in separate gunfights with terrorists on Tuesday and Wednesday.

There has been no fresh contact with the fleeing terrorists so far, the officials said. Police had on Wednesday released sketches of four terrorists involved in two attacks in the district and announced a reward of Rs 20 lakh for information leading to their arrest.

Digital Products Omar Hits Out at J&K Administration  

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday hit out at the Jammu and Kashmir administration for allegedly arresting and harassing people in the aftermath of terror attacks in the Jammu region, and asserted that the government would need the local population on its side if it wanted to end militancy. “‘If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’. This incompetent J&K administration only knows how to arrest, detain & harass people. They repeatedly make the same mistakes & still hope for a different outcome. To end militancy you need the local population on your side, not alienated & angry,” Abdullah posted on X.

He was commenting on a post by his party National Conference, which claimed that ordinary people were being harassed, detained, and arrested in Chenab valley and Pir Panjal region in the wake of a series of terror attacks over the past few days. “JKNC has always stood for peace and against extremist forces, having lost thousands of its workers to terror and deeply understanding their pain. However, the reports from Chenab and Pir Panjal, where ordinary people are being harassed, detained, and arrested, are profoundly distressing. This must be halted immediately,” the party alleged in the post.