JAMMU, Feb 5: Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said the Central Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to completely wipe out terrorism from jammu and Kashmir and maintained that terror ecosystem in the UT has significantly weakened due to sustained and coordinated efforts of the Government.Shah was addressing security review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir for second consecutive day in New Delhi. He held similar meeting in North Block for about two hours yesterday but had to cut it short due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the Parliament. The meeting was again held today and lasted nearly two hours.
Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Intelligence Bureau (IB) Director Tapan Deka, Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo, Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat and other senior officers of the Home Ministry and Jammu and Kashmir Government attended the meeting.
Army chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi had joined Shah’s security review meeting at North Block yesterday besides top brass of MHA, J&K administration and heads of paramilitary forces and Intelligence agencies.
“Narendra Modi Government is committed to completely wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir. Due to sustained and coordinated efforts of the Modi Government, the terror ecosystem in J&K has been significantly weakened,” Shah said in his address to the meeting.
He directed all security agencies to step up the fight against terrorism by aiming for the zero infiltration goal and take more stringent action on infiltration and acts of terror with a ruthless approach.
“It should be our goal to uproot the existence of terrorists,” Shah said.
He said that the narco network is providing support to infiltrators and terrorists to carry out their activities and called for taking prompt action against terror funding from the proceeds of the narcotics trade with alacrity and rigour
Shah directed the agencies to make new appointments in the posts of Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in view of the timely implementation of the new criminal laws.
He emphasised the Modi Government’s ‘policy of zero tolerance’ against terrorism to achieve the goal of a terrorism-free Jammu and Kashmir and called upon all security agencies to remain vigilant and continue to work in synergy to eliminate terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Home Minister appreciated efforts of the security agencies for significant improvement in all parameters of the security scenario in Jammu and Kashmir.
Shah took detailed review of the security situation of Jammu and Kashmir with top officials of the Army, police, paramilitary forces and others in two back-to-back meetings held on Tuesday and Wednesday. This was for the first time that the Home Minister had such threadbare discussions on security situation on Jammu and Kashmir for two consecutive days.
Security officials are understood to have given detailed briefing to the Union Home Minister on various aspects of security situation in Jammu and Kashmir including follow up measures on the decisions taken in last security review meeting on the UT chaired by Shah in the Union capital on December 19, 2024.
Focus also remained on parts of Jammu region where there has been presence of terrorists, mainly the Pakistanis, and where they struck last year targeting security forces, pilgrims and Village Defence Guards (VDGs).
Anti-terror operations in Kashmir also figured at the meeting where number of terrorists and their commanders have been killed but focus was on to keep the Valley terror-free by targeting remaining terrorists, upper ground network and hybrid militants engaged in targeted killings.
The security forces last week launched a massive operation in and Kajammushmir, mostly in the higher reaches and forest areas along the Line of Control, to locate and eliminate the terrorists who carried out multiple attacks in different districts last year.
Areas such as Reasi, Doda, Kishtwar, Kathua, Jammu and Rajouri have seen increased terror activity in the last couple of years.
