Rajnath Singh reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of terror attack in Uri
Home Minister Rajnath Singh today reviewed the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of the terror attack at an Army Brigade Headquarters in Uri in which 17 soldiers were killed.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi, Defence Secretary G Mohan Kumar and other senior officials of Army and paramilitary forces briefed Rajnath on the prevailing situation in the state following the terror strike.
At the meeting, Doval and other officials briefed Rajnath Singh on various implications of the attack and shared the intelligence inputs on various "nefarious" activities being planned by a "neighbouring country".
Sources said that "it was a clear case of cross-border attack", but government officials have declined to identify the group that carried out the early morning attack. Security forces shot dead all four heavily-armed attackers
The Home Minister directed that security forces should mount an all out offensive against terrorists operating in the Valley, sources said.
The Home Minister has already postponed his visit to Russia and the US in the wake of the deadly terror attack in Uri and the continuing unrest in the Kashmir Valley for more than two months after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani on July 8.
In one of the deadliest attacks on the Army in recent years, 17 jawans were killed and 30 others injured as heavily armed terrorists stormed a battalion headquarters of the force in the wee hours today.
Four terrorists involved in the terror strike were killed by the Army.