SRINAGAR : The Narendra Modi government is set to lift on Thursday an advisory asking tourists and pilgrims to leave Jammu & Kashmir, further rolling back steps taken after it scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution that gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir nearly two months back. But in view of the continued security risks, troops deployment will continue in the sensitive areas of J&K.
It may be noted that the J&K administration had issued an advisory on Monday after two terrorists belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed by the security forces. The two terrorists were caught in a firefight in Pulwama district, some 25 kilometres of Srinagar and in the same area where a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a bus carrying the CRPF personnel in February this year. A J&K police official was quoted as saying by Reuters that six terrorists had been killed since the restrictions were imposed in August.
Prasanta Patnaik