Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah on Sunday chaired a high-level meeting in New Delhi to review the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir and directed the agencies to implement the Area Domination and Zero Terror Plans in Jammu which yielded success in the Kashmir Valley in the past years.
He said the Narendra Modi government is committed to setting an example by cracking down on terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir through innovative means. Shah directed the agencies to replicate in the Jammu division the successes achieved in the Kashmir Valley through the area domination plan and the zero-terror plan, they said.
He emphasised that the fight against terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is in a decisive phase as the recent incidents show that terrorism has been forced to shrink from large organised terrorist violence to proxy war adding that the government is committed to ending it completely.
Reiterating the PM Modi-led government’s zero tolerance policy against terrorism, the Home Minister asked agencies to leave no stone unturned to eliminate terrorism from the entire Jammu and Kashmir.
He also reviewed the preparations for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, which is scheduled to begin on June 29, in a subsequent meeting. The sources said the home minister was given a thorough briefing on the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir where security forces are expected to intensify counter-terrorism operations in the coming days.
The operations against terrorists will be carried out in line with the prime minister’s directive, they said. Shah presided over the high-level meeting here at the North Block, three days after Prime Minister Modi held a similar meeting where he directed officials to deploy the “full spectrum of counter-terror capabilities” after a spate of terror incidents, including an attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Reasi district of the Jammu region.
