File photo: Omar Abdullah (ANI) NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday linked the recent surge in terrorist activities in the Jammu region to the redeployment of army personnel to Ladakh amid Chinese incursions . He suggested that this strategic shift had created an opening for terrorist groups to exploit the security gap. Abdullah made these remarks while visiting the families of four police personnel—Balvinder Singh, Tariq Ahmad, Jaswant Singh and Jagbir Singh—who were killed in an encounter with infiltrating terrorists in Kathua’s Safiyan forest on Thursday.
Two Pakistani terrorists, suspected to be from the banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), were also killed in the operation. Speaking to reporters, Abdullah said that encounters and terrorist attacks in the Jammu region were not new but had increased in the past three to four years. He attributed this to the military’s focus on countering Chinese incursions in Ladakh, which led to a redeployment of forces from Jammu.
"When the Chinese army made an incursion into Ladakh, we needed an army to counter them. We could not remove troops from the valley, so those stationed in Jammu were sent to Ladakh, resulting in a security gap. That shortage is now being addressed," Abdullah stated.
Abdullah stressed the need for better counter-terror strategies to prevent further loss of life. "We must control militancy in such a way that the martyrdom of our people is stopped forever," he said. He also expr.
