Shah holds security review meeting for Amarnath Yatra

Shah arrived in Jammu on Thursday evening in his second visit to the Union Territory after the April 22 Pahalgam attack. He is set to visit Poonch on Friday to meet families of those affected by shelling during the military hostilities with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor earlier this month.

Officials said that Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi, J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Tapan Deka, J&K police chief Nalin Prabhat, chiefs of paramilitary forces, and other officials of the UT administration were present in the meeting.

The Amarnath Yatra, scheduled to take place from July 3 to August 9, is being held amid a high alert in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. One of the routes for the Yatra leading to the shrine in Chandanwari is via Pahalgam where an attack on April 22 claimed 26 civilians and injured many more.