Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah on January 2 approved ‘J&K Security Model’, reports Daily Excelsior. After the high-level security review meeting in New Delhi on Jammu and Kashmir with special focus on Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir which witnessed surge in terror attacks in 2023 with killing of 19 soldiers in four incidents, Shah approved ‘Jammu & Kashmir Security Model’ aimed at eliminating terrorism in all forms and in all places and directed all security and Intelligence agencies to unitedly fight the menace vigorously. The ‘Model’ include elimination of terrorism, intensifying search and combing operations in all vulnerable areas of Rajouri and Poonch to finish of 30-odd terrorists hiding there, ensuring that there is no local support to the militants, identification and arrest of Over Ground Workers (OGWs), strengthening Intelligence network for speedy info on terror hideouts, complete coordination among all security agencies for quick action, strengthening vigil on the borders with Pakistan to ensure zero infiltration despite foggy weather conditions, acting tough on those promoting terror using Social Media, mobilization of Village Defence Groups (VDGs), attachment of properties of militants, OGWs and others supporting militancy to maintain pressure on them and keeping local people with them with pro-people welfare measures and schemes besides other issues, the officials said.
Use of drones to smuggle arms and narcotics from across the border into Indian territory will be over in the next six months as an indigenous anti-drone technology is being developed to check all such misadventures by the anti-national elements, a senior government functionary said, Daily Excelsior reports on January 3. Security agencies are working on as many as three designs of the anti-drone technology and the final outcome could be three or a combination of all three. “The menace of smuggling in arms and narcotics from across the border through the use of drones will be over in the next six months. Definitely the anti-drone technology will be placed by then,” the functionary said. Trials on the new technology are going on and it is in advance stage of finalisation. Dropping of arms, ammunition and narcotics from Pakistan by using the drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir has been a major problem for security agencies for several years now.