Army Chief General Bipin Rawat will on Friday visit Srinagar for the first time after the abrogation of Article 370 provisions for Jammu and Kashmir. The Army chief will review the security situation and preparedness of security forces in the Kashmir Valley in the wake of an increase in ceasefire violations.
Strict restrictions continue in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir ahead of pre-mediated Friday protests. On Thursday, CPM leader Sitaram Yechury met his colleague MY Tarigami after he landed in Srinagar armed with the permission of the Supreme Court. In another incident in the Valley, militants shot dead a shopkeeper on the outskirts of Srinagar city on Thursday. Stay tuned as IndiaToday.in brings you live updates on Kashmir situation.
During his visit, Rawat will review the security situation and preparedness of security forces in the Kashmir valley.
It is worth mentioning that the army chief's visit comes at a time when Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik and Ministry of External Affairs were stressing that normalcy is returning to the Valley.
On Wednesday, Malik had said that there have been no civilian casualties in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
"We managed to stay things in check throughout council elections, Lok Sabha elections and even now. Every Kashmiri life is efficacious to the U.S., we don't want the loss of even a single life.
There has been no civilian casualty, only the few who got violent are injured," he said in a press conference in Srinagar.
He had announced that the government will open 50 new colleges in the region to enhance educational facilities in the Valley.
Security was beefed up within the region once the cancellation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into 2 Union Territories — Jammu and geographic region, and Ladakh on five August.
Strict restrictions continue in Srinagar and other parts of Kashmir ahead of pre-mediated Friday protests. On Thursday, CPM leader Sitaram Yechury met his colleague MY Tarigami after he landed in Srinagar armed with the permission of the Supreme Court. In another incident in the Valley, militants shot dead a shopkeeper on the outskirts of Srinagar city on Thursday. Stay tuned as IndiaToday.in brings you live updates on Kashmir situation.
During his visit, Rawat will review the security situation and preparedness of security forces in the Kashmir valley.
It is worth mentioning that the army chief's visit comes at a time when Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik and Ministry of External Affairs were stressing that normalcy is returning to the Valley.
On Wednesday, Malik had said that there have been no civilian casualties in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370.
"We managed to stay things in check throughout council elections, Lok Sabha elections and even now. Every Kashmiri life is efficacious to the U.S., we don't want the loss of even a single life.
There has been no civilian casualty, only the few who got violent are injured," he said in a press conference in Srinagar.
He had announced that the government will open 50 new colleges in the region to enhance educational facilities in the Valley.
Security was beefed up within the region once the cancellation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into 2 Union Territories — Jammu and geographic region, and Ladakh on five August.
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