Security beefed up in Jammu amid call for protests against Pahalgam terror attack, Amit Shah reaches Srinagar to review security

• Amit Shah reaches Srinagar to review security situation in Pahalgam terror attack aftermath
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• Security personnel move towards the site after terrorists attacked a group of tourists at Pahalgam, in Anantnag district, Jammu & Kashmir, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. At least 12 people suffered injuries in the attack, according to officials. (PTI Photo)

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• JAMMU — Security has been beefed up across Jammu as various outfits have called for protests on Wednesday to condemn a deadly terror attack on tourists in south Kashmir's Pahalgam tourist resort, officials said.
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• Terrorists opened fire at a famed meadow near Pahalgam town on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 26 people, mostly tourists, in the deadliest attack in the valley since the Pulwama strike in 2019.
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• The 26 deceased included two foreigners and two locals, a high-ranking official said, without getting into details.

Read: Kashmir terrorists attack: 26 people, mostly tourists, killed in Pahalgam's 'mini Switzerland'

• The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress and several right-wing groups have announced major protests in Jammu city and elsewhere on Wednesday.
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• Officials said a high-level security meeting, jointly chaired by Jammu Divisional Commissioner Ramesh Kumar and Inspector General of Police, Jammu, Bhim Sen Tuti, is underway at the Police Control Room here to chalk out a strategy to deal with the situation.
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• Additional police and paramilitary forces have already been deployed in sensitive areas as a precautionary measure to maintain peace and law and order, they said.
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• The Congress has asked all its leaders and workers of the Jammu urban and rural blocks and frontal wings to assemble at the party headquarters here on Wednesday morning for a protest against the terror attack.
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• The Shiv Sena (UBT), the Dogra Front and the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal, besides the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, lawyers and various market associations have also called for protests in the city on Wednesday.
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• Mission Statehood president Sunil Dimple staged an anti-Pakistan protest in Jammu city, while reports of agitations also came in from various district headquarters, including Doda, Kathua and Poonch.
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• Amit Shah reaches Srinagar to review security situation in Pahalgam terror attack aftermath

In this image released by @diprjk via X on April 22, 2025, J&K Minister Sakina Itoo meets an injured receiving treatment at a hospital, after terrorists attacked a group of tourists at Pahalgam, in Anantnag district, Jammu & Kashmir. At least 12 people suffered injuries in the attack, according to officials. (@diprjk on X via PTI Photo)

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• SRINAGAR — Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Srinagar to review the security situation in Kashmir following a deadly terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 people were killed, officials said.
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• Hours after the attack on tourists, Shah rushed to Srinagar and drove straight to the Raj Bhavan from the airport. He is scheduled to chair a high-level meeting of security officials, the officials said.
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• The home minister is likely to visit Pahalgam on Wednesday, they added.
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• Terrorists opened fire at a famed meadow near Kashmir's Pahalgam town on Tuesday afternoon, killing 26 people, mostly tourists, in what is the deadliest attack in the valley since the 2019 Pulwama strike.
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• The dead included two foreigners and two locals, a high ranking official said without getting into details.
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• The toll is still being ascertained, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said while describing the terror attack as "much larger than anything we've seen directed at civilians in recent years".
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• Baisaran, about six kilometres from the resort town of Pahalgam, is an expansive meadow ringed by dense pine forests and mountains and a favourite with visitors from across the country and the world.
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• Armed terrorists came into the grassland, dubbed "mini Switzerland", and started firing at tourists milling around eateries, taking pony rides or picnicking, officials and eyewitnesses said.
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• As news of the attack spread, The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadow group of the banned Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, claimed responsibility.
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• The officials said it was possible members of the terror group could have crossed over from Kishtwar in Jammu and reached Baisaran through Kokernag in south Kashmir.