LG, top brass of Army, CAPFs, Police to attend
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 14: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a high-level meeting to review security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the national capital on December 19.
This will be first security review of the UT after Omar Abdullah Government took charge on October 16 though charge of the Home Department remained with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.
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Besides the Lieutenant Governor, the meeting from Jammu and Kashmir is expected to be attended by Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, Home Secretary Chandraker Bharti, Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat and Additional DGP CID Nitish Kumar.
The meeting will primarily focus on critical security issues including elimination of terrorists in the winter months in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir.
The meeting also aims to review strategies to ensure peace and stability in the UT.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, senior Army Officers including Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, Director General of CAPFs and other senior officers are expected to attend the meeting which is being arranged almost five months after Shah chaired a similar high-level review meeting on security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on June 16.
The meeting is significant in terms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central Government’s commitment to set an example by cracking down on terrorists through innovative means.
There have been series of terror attacks this year in different districts of the Jammu region including Doda, Kishtwar, Udhampur, Kathua, Rajouri and Poonch amid reports that few groups of Pakistani terrorists are hiding in the hills indulging in the strikes against security forces, Village Defence Guards and civilians.
The high-level meeting is expected to formulate a strategy to neutralize these terrorists especially during the winters when there will be snowfall on the hills and the ultras will be forced to come down to the plains.
While number of the terrorists hiding in the mountains of the Jammu region is anybody’s guess, the reports indicated that they are in the groups of three to four and putting up separately in the hideouts which could either be natural caves or some abandoned dhoks.
The terrorists are mostly the Pakistanis and are reported to have infiltrated from across the border and trek mountains to reach hilly areas of Kathua, Udhampur, Kishtwar, Doda, Rajouri, Poonch and Reasi districts. They are being supported by the Over Ground Workers (OGWs) to sustain by providing them with ration and other essential items.
Recently, Jammu police launched major crackdown in almost the entire region to bust “support base system” of the terrorists during which number of persons were detained and some of them including two women have been booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
In the previous meeting, the Home Minister had directed security agencies to replicate the successes achieved in Kashmir valley through an area domination plan and zero terror plan in the Jammu division.
Shah had also directed all security agencies in earlier meetings to work in a mission mode and ensure quick response in a coordinated manner. He had then also emphasized on seamless coordination amongst the security agencies, identifying vulnerable areas and addressing the security concerns of such areas.
Reiterating a zero-tolerance policy against terrorism, the Home Minister has reiterated on many occasions that “the Government will leave no stone unturned in rooting out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir.”
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