A core group meeting of top security officials in Kashmir on Saturday pointed out that Pakistan had intensified its efforts at increasing infiltration and ceasefire violations and there was also an effort to calibrate increase in terrorist actions in the hinterland.

The General Officer Commanding, Chinar Corps, Lt-Gen BS Raju, and Director-General of Police, Jammu & Kashmir, Dilbag Singh, co-chaired a meeting of the core group consisting of top officials of the civil administration, intelligence agencies and security forces in Srinagar.

The meeting was to review the security situation and ensure readiness to meet the anticipated security challenges, an Army statement said. “The core group focused on the need for high level of synergy amongst all agencies in addressing the security concerns of Kashmir. Intelligence inputs indicated that Pakistan had intensified its efforts at increasing infiltration and ceasefire violations across the Line of Control (LoC). There is also an effort to calibrate increase in terrorist actions in the hinterland. Pakistan and its proxies are also active on social media to launch disinformation campaign in J&K,” the statement said.

The group discussed plans to ensure a robust counter infiltration grid along the LoC, counter-terrorist grid in the hinterland and recent successes in anti-terror operations.

“The intelligence inputs indicate efforts by anti-nationals and Pakistan proxies to calibrate increase in violence in J&K,” the statement read. The group discussed the need for continued intelligence-based anti-terror operations with a humane touch.

“In order to address the complete eco-system of terror organisations in J&K, the anti-terror operations are being supported by efforts to identify and arrest over ground workers who sustain the terror organisations,” it added.

Courtesy: Daily Tribune:  31st May, 2020