GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 25th August. Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, including the security arrangements along the border with Pakistan, according to officials.
Ajit Doval, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, and senior officials from the Centre and the Union Territory administration attended the meeting, which was presided over by Home Minister Shah.
According to an official, the meeting focused on the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The security review comes in the wake of attacks on security personnel, infiltration attempts, and murders in the Union Territory.
On Thursday, three infiltrators were killed by security personnel along the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri’s Kamalkote sector.
Terrorists from across the border have attempted at least three infiltrations into Jammu and Kashmir in the last four days.
On Tuesday night, a group of terrorists attempted to infiltrate Indian territory in the Pallanwala sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Alert troops opened fire on them, forcing them to flee.
According to officials, on August 21, soldiers deployed in the Jhangar sector of Rajouri’s Naushera spotted the movement of two to three terrorists on the Indian side of the LoC and challenged them.
One of the terrorists tried to flee, but was injured in firing by the soldiers and captured alive. The two other terrorists managed to flee, the officials said.
On the intervening night of August 22 and 23, a group of two to three terrorists tried to infiltrate Naushera’s Lam sector. As they advanced into minefields, a series of mines detonated, killing two ultras on the spot.
On August 11, terrorists attacked an Army camp in Rajouri district, killing four soldiers. After a pre-dawn suicide attack that marked the return of “fidayeen” attackers to Jammu and Kashmir after more than three years, the two attackers were gunned down in a shootout.
The government informed Parliament that since the repeal of Article 370 of the Constitution in 2019, 118 civilians, including five Kashmiri Pandits and 16 other Hindus and Sikhs, had been killed in Jammu and Kashmir.
Members of the Kashmiri Pandit community protested the killings, demanding increased security and the relocation of government employees to safer locations.
Four Hindu pilgrims were killed and at least 20 others were injured when their bus caught fire near Katra in Jammu in May. The fire may have been started by a sticky bomb, according to police.
Article 370, which granted Jammu and Kashmir special status, was repealed on August 5, 2019, and the state was divided into the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
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