NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR - India has stepped up security in the Jammu and Kashmir region because of an increase in militant attacks in the run-up to a G20 meeting on tourism in the Himalayan territory, officials said on Wednesday (May 17). The city of Srinagar, the summer capital of the federal territory, is due to host a tourism working group meeting...
Muslim men offer prayers on the banks of Dal Lake, during the fasting month of Ramadan, in Srinagar, on April 19, 2022.NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR - India has stepped up security in the Jammu and Kashmir region because of an increase in militant attacks in the run-up to a G20 meeting on tourism in the Himalayan territory, officials said on Wednesday .
Islamist militants have stepped up attacks this year in the Jammu region, across the mountains from the Kashmir Valley where Srinagar is located.Security officials said they fear the separatist militants could try to promote their cause with an attack before or during the G20 meeting. Military and police officers said they had intelligence information that militants might target a military-run school in Jammu and take students hostage.In response, such schools had been shut and classes moved online until after the G20 meeting, they said.Vijay Kumar, chief of police in the Kashmir Valley, told Reuters that commandos had been deployed in the city and members of a counter-terrorism force would be on stationed in various places.
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