Union Home Minister Amit Shah has instructed the security agencies to replicate Kashmir-like area domination plan and zero terror plans in Jammu region.
Following four terrorist attacks in Jammu region within a week, Shah chaired a high-level meeting on Sunday to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir. National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Pande, Northern Army Commander Lt. Gen. Upendra Dwivedi, etc. attended the meeting.
The meeting was divided in two parts. While the first half focussed on the situation in Jammu, the second half focussed on the preparations for Amarnath Yatra.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Shah said that the Narendra Modi government was “determined to provide all-round security and all other necessary facilities to the pilgrims of Shri Amarnath”.
As for the situation in the Jammu region, Shah directed security agencies to replicate the successes achieved in Kashmir Valley through area domination plan and zero terror plan, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
What’s expected to change in Jammu?
It was decided in the meeting that the intelligence and counter-infiltration grids will be strengthened, according to The Indian Express.
It is believed that the terrorists who carried out the recent wave of attacks in Jammu region, which coincided with swearing-in of the new government, had infiltrated from across the border in Pakistan.
Sources told The Express that the Modi government has chalked out the following steps to tackle the situation in Jammu region: strengthen the anti-infiltration grid, generate better intelligence, increase boots on the ground, and step up patrolling.
“A comprehensive plan has been prepared to increase boots on the ground and have more patrolling,” said a senior official to the newspaper.
Sources further told the paper that more than 400 companies of security forces may be deployed during the Amarnath Yatra.
Wave of attacks in Jammu region
The meeting by Shah comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a similar meeting to review the situation in J&K.
Following the meeting, it was said in a statement that Modi directed the security agencies to deploy “full spectrum of counter-terror capabilities” to tackle the situation.
In the past week, four terrorist attacks were reported in Jammu’s Reasi, Kathua, and Doda. Ten people were killed in the attacks, included nine in the attack on Hindu pilgrims in Reasi, and seven security personnel were injured. The attack in Reasi on a bus carrying pilgrims to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra also injured more than 40 pilgrims. The bus fell into a deep gorge after the terrorists fired at the driver who lost control of the vehicle after being shot.
The wave of attacks in Jammu region, which targeted both the civilians and military installations in the region, have led to questions whether the Pakistan-fuelled terrorist movement in Kashmir is turning towards the Jammu region.
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Area Domination & Zero Terror Plans: Here’s what Amit Shah ordered in Jammu security review meeting
