Union Home Minister Amit Shah landed in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday night for a three-day visit, with a focus on security review, political outreach and developmental projects, amid ongoing anti-terror operations in the Union Territory.
Security forces in Kashmir are on alert for Shah’s visit, with police and paramilitary CRPF personnel carrying out area dominance exercises and surprise checks around the commercial hub of Lal Chowk and adjoining areas, according to officials.
Security personnel have been deployed in higher numbers, and random vehicle checks and frisking operations have also been intensified. Searches of several premises in the locality were carried out, and passersby were frisked.
Shah will visit border posts during his visit on
Friday, and he is expected to lay the foundation stone for six welfare schemes for border personnel. He will also chair a security review meeting at 2:30 pm and will later meet the families of martyrs at Lok Bhavan, Jammu.
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The visit is expected to include high-level meetings with security agencies and administrative officials to evaluate the overall law and order situation and the progress of ongoing governance and infrastructure initiatives.
Earlier, BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa welcomed the Home Minister’s visit, calling it an important signal of the Centre’s commitment to Jammu and Kashmir. He told news agency IANS that such visits provide a morale boost to security agencies and reaffirm the government’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism and instability.
“It is always a welcome step when the Home Minister visits Jammu. It shows his concern about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. During this three-day visit, security agencies will get a morale boost. This visit reflects that both the Prime Minister and the Home Minister remain committed to the zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism,” Randhawa said.
Congress leader Tariq Karra said, “His visits have now become routine, which indicates that the situation requires a review. He comes, assesses the situation, returns, and states that everything is normal and under control. However, over the last three to four months, eight districts have been affected by militancy, with militants striking at will and encounters continuing for 10 to 12 days. All this is happening while the Government of India claims the situation is normal.”
His visit came after security forces killed three Pakistani operatives in the Doda-Kishtwar-Udhampur belt in the last 48 hours. In the latest operation on Wednesday, one terrorist was killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.
According to sources, the operations are being hailed as a major blow to the Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) strategic push to revive militancy in eastern Jammu — a region that was relatively peaceful and stable until a recent influx of foreign fighters in 2024.
The sources said the three terrorists, identified as Pakistani nationals from Rawalakot in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), infiltrated the region in April 2024 as part of a larger batch of 35 to 40 militants. Despite multiple search operations, the cell managed to survive undetected for months by adopting sophisticated evasion tactics, they said.
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