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National Security Advisor Ajit Doval conducted a comprehensive operational review of the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and told top army commanders and paramilitary forces to strengthen the counter-infiltration network along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan and the counter. Insurgency network in the Kashmir Valley.
The high-level meeting was convened in the context of militant activity in the Handwara, Baramulla and Sopore triangle of northern Kashmir that cost the lives of six soldiers, including a senior officer colonel. It is also in this region where the security forces eliminated a high-ranking terrorist from Lashkar,Haider and Riyaz Naikoo, who led the Hizbul Mujahideen terror group in the valley.
Then there is an intelligence alert about the plans of the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed to carry out simultaneous suicide attacks on military and paramilitary bases on Monday, May 11.
Senior government officials told HT that the NSA also noted the increase in air activity by the Pakistan Air Force along India’s western border that coincided with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, and more. The Islamabad foreign affairs office later issued a statement that India was seeking a “Pretext for a false flag operation targeting Pakistan.”
Authorities said there was consensus that the Imran Khan government’s effort to distance itself from the terrorists it supports was a preemptive move and indicated a fresh push from Pakistani terror launch platforms in the coming weeks.
The meeting pointed out how Pakistan financed teams such as the Resistance Front or the JK Pir Panjal Peace Forum to affirm that terrorism in the valley was indigenous and not sponsored by it. An official said that placing the Pakistan Air Force on high alert was also designed to promote Imran Khan’s narrative calling on the international community to intervene so that there is no confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors. The NSA also told officials to step up engagement with terrorists in the Kashmir Valley.
The five-hour meeting was attended by, among others, the army chief general, Manoj Mukund Naravane, the director of the Intelligence Office, Arvinda Kumar, the head of the Investigation and Analysis wing, Samant Kumar Goel, the director general from the Border Security Force, SS Deswal, and the head of the Central Reserve Police Force, AK. Maheshwari
A senior anti-terrorism official told HT that the meeting discussed the infiltration routes used by terrorists in Pakistan and suggested ground-level adjustments that could ensure that terrorists were detected.
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