CM to chair Unified HQ meeting today

DEEPAK KHAJURIA

JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir's topmost security policy and strategy grouping, the Unified Headquarters, headed by Chief Minister, is meeting tomorrow to make an assessment of the present security situation and discuss the future challenges.
Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti will chair the meeting at her Wazarat Road residence tomorrow morning. The meeting assumes significance in the backdrop of new strategic approaches in Kashmir, amnesty to stone-pelters and the upcoming Panchayat elections.
Besides Deputy Chief Minister Dr Nirmal Singh, top brass of the Army, state Police, central paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies will attend the meeting.
Official sources said that the issues related to army and para-military forces' role in Kashmir, especially after Operation All Out's much claimed success, ongoing Cordon And Search Operation (CASO) in various parts of Valley, amnesty to stone pelters as a goodwill gesture of the state government and upcoming Panchayat Elections in the state are the issues likely to dominate agenda at the Unified Command Meeting.
It is worth mentioning that the last meeting of Unified Command was held at Srinagar on April 25, 2017 and then the deteriorating security situation in the valley was reviewed. That meeting was held after Mehbooba returned from New Delhi where she discussed the Valley's unrest situation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and after that meeting army and other security forces have strengthened its Operation All Out and also National Investigation Agencies (NIA) raided various separatist leaders to curb the stone pelting and unrest in Kashmir.