L-G Sinha, Army Chief chair high-level security review meetings in Jammu

On Saturday, the Army Chief visited Jammu for the second time in less than three weeks since taking the charge of the COAS on June 30. He had visited Poonch district on July 3 to attend a security review meeting in Jammu.

“We must launch meticulous and well-planned counter-terrorism operations with greater synergy between all the agencies to wipe out terrorists and those aiding… them,” the L-G said.

These meetings came in the wake of the killing of nine soldiers in two terror attacks in Kathua district’s Badnota village near Machedi on July 8 and in Doda district’s Desa forests on July 15.

Since the June 9 terror attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu’s Reasi, Jammu has seen a surge in militant activities and at least 10 security personnel have been killed and several others injured in encounters in Jammu division’s Doda, Reasi and Kathua.

On July 16, the Army said all formations of Udhampur-based northern command are committed to eliminate the scourge of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. The Army has been conducting a series of joint and coordinated operations with the J&K Police to eliminate foreign militants who have infiltrated from across the border and are moving in the upper reaches of Doda, Udhampur, and Kishtwar districts in the Jammu region and, thereafter, to Kashmir, said officials.