New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will chair a high-level security review meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) over the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a report. This comes a day after a police constable was killed and 15 other security personnel were injured in a grenade attack by the militants in Nowhatta area of Srinagar yesterday. It has been learned that National Security Officer Ajit Doval, Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and intelligence officers will share their thoughts and inputs in the meeting, the report said.
Militants had hurled the grenade on a police party next to Ganjbaksh Park in Nowhatta area at around 7.00 pm when they were withdrawing from there after day long law and order duty, a police official said. He said 16 security personnel were injured in the grenade blast. One of them, police constable Shamin Ahmed, succumbed to injuries later. Two CRPF personnel were also among the injured. The official said miscreants had engaged the cops by pelting stones on them in the same area.
Asserting that “40 years of bloodshed” had not benefitted anyone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday had sent out a message to the misguided youth of Kashmir, asking them to choose tourism over terrorism so that the state could achieve new heights of progress.
He again invoked former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s slogan of ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat, Insaniyat (Kashmirism, democracy and humanity)’ and said it will be the “prime motto” in moving ahead “with harmony, with brotherhood, with strong will and determination for the brighter future of the youth” and “no obstacle can stop us”.
