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The 38-day annual Amarnath pilgrimage will commence on 3 July and culminate on 9 August on Raksha Bandhan. The pilgrimage will set off from two routes – the Pahalgam track in the Anantnag district and Baltal in the Ganderbal district – simultaneously.
The holy silver mace of Swami Amarnath Ji will be led by its custodian Mahant Deependra Giri, who is the Mahant of the Chhari-Mubarak Swami Amarnath.
The Lt Governor interacted with the pilgrims, and enquired about their pilgrimage experience.
Over 1.82 lakh pilgrims had ‘darshan’ inside the holy cave shrine of Amarnath during the last nine days as another batch of 5,803 yatris left for Kashmir on Monday.
The Northern Army Commander who arrived in Srinagar on three days visit held a detailed briefing with all the stakeholders and appreciated efforts being undertaken for a peaceful and incident free Yatra.
There was specific information that a hybrid module of LeT activated by Pakistani handlers and small arms had been delivered to the group for carrying out targeted hits.
Killing of these terrorists has come a day after detection of a Pakistani cross-border tunnel in Jammu for infiltration of terrorists to target Amarnath pilgrims.
The road route for the Amarnath pilgrimage (Pathankot--Jammu--Srinagar highway) passes through Samba near where the tunnel has been detected. The highway is few kilometres from the IB.
Sources in the government said that Union Home Minister is also expected to hold a security review meeting very soon regarding the pilgrimage after the first round of review meetings by Bhalla. Bhalla, accompanied by Director Intelligence Bureau Arvind Kumar, who was on a two-day visit to the Union Territory, returned to Delhi by late Thursday.
