After a series of terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a review meeting on the security situation in the Union Territory and asked the officials to “deploy full spectrum of counter-terror capabilities” to combat terrorism.
According to ANI news agency, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and other officials on Thursday gave PM Modi a full overview of the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
“PM was apprised of the counter-terror efforts being undertaken. PM asked them to deploy the full spectrum of our counter-terror capabilities,” ANI quoted government sources as saying.
Meanwhile, PM Modi also spoke to Home Minister Amit Shah and J&K LG Manoj Sinha and discussed the deployment of security forces and counter-terror operations.
“PM spoke to HM Amit Shah and discussed the deployment of security forces and counter-terror operations. PM also spoke to J&K LG Manoj Sinha and took stock of the situation in J&K. PM was briefed on the efforts being undertaken by local administration,” the sources added.
The security review comes close on the heels of a fresh encounter in a village in Gandoh area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district where a policeman was injured when terrorists opened fire on a search party.
The firing was reported from the Kota top area of Bhalesa around 7.41 pm to which security forces retaliated, officials said.
This was the second terror-related incident in Doda in the last 24 hours and fourth in three days in Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, five Rashtriya Rifles personnel and a Special Police Officer were injured in a terrorist attack in Chattargalla pass.
In another incident late on Tuesday, a suspected Pakistani terrorist was killed by security forces in Kathua district. The overnight encounter ended after a second terrorist was also gunned down on Wednesday but a CRPF jawan lost his life in the operation.
On Sunday, nine people were killed and 41 injured as terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying pilgrims, which was on its way from the Shiv Khori temple to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra, causing it to veer off the road into a deep gorge near the Teryath village of the Poni area of Reasi.
With inputs from agencies
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