Omar leads ministers, officials to border Poonch district
This was the first outreach of Omar after becoming CM of Jammu and Kashmir.
This was the first outreach of Omar after becoming CM of Jammu and Kashmir.
The project, funded by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways at a cost of Rs 62.5 crore, was carried out under the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) mode.
He was peaking at the inauguration of the four-day National Agriculture Summit & Farmers’ Fair-2024 at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST), Jammu.
The L-G was chairing a high-level meeting of senior civil, police officials and DCs, SSPs of Jammu Division to review the progress of development projects and security situation in the region.
A junior commissioned officer of the army’s elite special forces lost his life and three soldiers were injured during a terror attack in Kishtwar recently.
Welcoming the tourists, Director Tourism informed that already more than 95% of tourism stakeholders in the valley have been vaccinated against Covid-19, and capacity building programmes have been held at various tourist destinations for stakeholders like hoteliers, ponywallas, tourist guides etc for conducting tourist business post-Covid-19 pandemic.
Moreover, Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) which is engineering terror strikes in India had reportedly supported the Taliban by providing them nearly 8000 trained and armed terrorists who are learned to have returned after the fall of Kabul.
Buoyed by its success in Afghanistan, Pakistan was waiting for an opportunity to destabilise Jammu and Kashmir, by instigating widespread insurgency. The militancy reached its peak in the early 1990s and continued till the middle of the decade, aided and abetted by Pakistan.
Reports said the airstrip at Kabul airport is, however, controlled by the US forces who are supervising the evacuation of the diplomatic staff of some countries.
Police said JeM terrorists and their associates have been arrested by Jammu Police in a drive to root out the presence of terrorists in Jammu.
