Amit Shah to chart J&K’s security blueprint 2025

New Delhi, Dec 18: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.

It will be the first such meeting after the last assembly elections held in September-October, sources said.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, top officers of the Army, paramilitary forces, J&K administration, intelligence agencies, and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) are expected to attend the meeting.

“The Home Minister will review the security situation in J&K. He will be briefed about the prevailing situation in J&K and the situation along the border areas,” sources said.

This will be Shah's first meeting after the assembly elections conducted in J&K where a National Conference (NC) government, headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah assumed charge.

After the abrogation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two union territories in 2019, law and order is the direct responsibility of the central government.

The home minister is likely to have a detailed discussion on the security roadmap ahead for the year 2025, the sources said.

Sporadic incidents have been continuing in Jammu and Kashmir.

On October 20, seven persons were killed in a terror attack in central Kashmir.

Before that, there were attacks on outsiders working in Kashmir.

The meeting is expected to take note of recent terror incidents and possible steps to be taken on how to stop such attacks in the coming days, the sources said.

According to official data, 142 terrorists were killed in J&K in 2019 and the number is around 45 so far this year.

Fifty civilians were killed in 2019 in J&K while the figure came down to 14 by the first week of November this year.