NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday refuted the claims of recent surge in terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and said that attacks in the valley have been reduced compared to the earlier times.
While speaking to the media, Rajnath termed the terrorists attacks as unfortunate and added that thee security forces are giving befitting reply to the terrorists.
“This is not an issue of security lapses. Compared to earlier times, attacks have been reduced. Our security forces are on alert, such a situation will come that from there terror activities will be fully wiped out and Jammu and Kashmir will develop fast,” the Union minister said.
“The attacks that happened were unfortunate, our security forces are giving befitting reply also, so many terrorists have been killed,” he added.
Rajnath’s remarks comes as security forces have neutered two militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag .
Additionally, the security forces and militants also clashed in two separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir. Search operation is under way on Saturday in Bandipora and Khanyar localities of Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier, two migrant workers from UP were wounded in a suspected terrorist strike on a Jal Jeevan Mission project site at Mazhama in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, making this the sixth targeted attack on non-natives in Jammu and Kashmir this year.
On Oct 18, the bullet-riddled body of a 30-year-old migrant labourer from Bihar’s Banka district was found in a maize field near Rambiara river in south Kashmir’s Shopian district. The labourer, Ashok Chauhan, had been abducted and killed by terrorists. Barely a week later, on Oct 24, a 19-year-old barber named Shubam Kumar from UP’s Bijnor suffered a gunshot wound in his right arm in a terrorist attack at Batagund village in south Kashmir’s Pulwama.