Fazil Mir
Jammu July 20 (NVI):-Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday chaired two separate joint security review meetings in Jammu where a new counter terrorism strategy was rolled, that entails—plugging the operational flaws, intensifying counter terrorist operations and tracking the hiding terrorists with active support of locals.
General Dwivedi arrived in Jammu at 2:30 pm and chaired the first security review meeting at Police Headquarters, Jammu with DGP and other senior police & intelligence officers. Discussion was held on modus-operandi of terrorists operating in Jammu, how they managed to sneak in, routes used by them to infiltrate, possibility of new tunnels dug along International Border and routes being used by foreign terrorists to enter Jammu via Punjab border. The meeting ended at 4 pm.
Sources said that at 4:30 pm, another security review meeting was held at Raj Bhawan Jammu. The Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha today chaired the high-level meeting with Army Chief, various heads of security and law enforcement agencies on the security situation in Jammu division.
The meeting was attended by Gen.Upendra Dwivedi,Chief of the Army Staff, Dr. Nitin Agrawal DG BSF, Anish Dayal Singh DG CRPF, R.R.Swain DGP J&K, Heads of Intelligence Agencies and other senior officials of Army, Central Armed Police Forces(CAPF’s) and J&K Police.
The Lieutenant Governor asked the Army, CAPFs and the Jammu & Kashmir Police to pro-actively conduct coordinated counter-terrorism operations in Jammu Division to wipe out terrorism.
“We must launch meticulous and well-planned counter-terrorism operations with greater synergy between all the agencies to wipe out terrorists and those aiding and abetting them,” the Lieutenant Governor said.
The Lieutenant Governor also directed that the security grid should be further strengthened to ensure zero cross-border infiltration.
The security review meetings in Jammu came close on the heels of the July 16 terrorist ambush in Doda district where five soldiers were killed and as many injured.
On July 14, Prime Minister Narendera Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security. The meeting was followed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s another security review where surge in terrorist strikes in Jammu was discussed threadbare.
Notably, the Jammu division is on high alert due to recent terror attacks and inputs of Terrorist movements in the division. (News Vibes of India)
