20-Jul-2024 11:32 PM
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Jammu, July 20 (Reporter) Jammu and Kashmir’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Army chief General Upend era Dwivedi on Saturday chaired two seperate joint security review meetings here.
The meetings discussed strategies to ntensifying counter terrorist operations and tracking the hiding terrorists with active support of locals.
General Dwivedi arrived here in the afternoon and chaired the first security review meeting at Police Headquarters, Jammu.
He was flanked by DGP J&K, R R Swain.
Meanwhile, as per sources, a separate meeting was held here at Raj Bhawan, chaired by LG Manoj Sinha.
Both meetings, as per sources, were attended by Director General of Police (DGP) RR Swain, DG BSF, DG CRPF, Heads of Intelligence Agencies and other senior officials of army, CAPFs and J&K Police at Raj Bhawan, Jammu.
The security review meetings in Jammu came close on the heels of the July 16 terrorist ambush in Doda district where five soldiers were killed and as many injured.
Earlier, in the meeting held at PHQ Jammu, sources said that the security officials discussed threadbare the modus-operandi of terrorists operating in Jammu, how they managed to sneak in, routes used by them to infiltrate, possibility of new tunnels dug International Border and routes being used by foreign terrorists to enter Jammu via Punjab border.
The Army chief as per sources stressed on well-coordinated efforts to tackle new terror challenges in the Jammu region while ensuring minimal casualties to security forces, especially the army...////...