Jammu Tawi, May 28: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be reaching here on Thursday to review the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, his first visit to the Union Territory post Operation Sindoor, officials said.
During his two-day stay in Jammu region, Shah will also visit Poonch district which recorded the highest number of 14 civilian deaths among the total 28 lives lost in the indiscriminate Pakistani shelling and drone attacks during the skirmishes between May 7 and 10, they said.
This will be the third visit of the home minister to J&K since April 6 and first after the Indian armed forces struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir early May 7 in retaliation to the Pahalgam terror attack that left 26 people, mostly tourists, dead.
After conducting a three-day tour on April 6, Shah again visited Kashmir on April 23, a day after the Pahalgam attack.
The officials said the home minister is scheduled to arrive in Jammu Thursday evening and will chair a high-level security review meeting at Raj Bhawan.
Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and senior officials from the army, police and paramilitary forces will be attending the one-and-a-half hours meeting, they said.
The officials said Shah will interact with shelling-hit families during his visit to Poonch on Friday. He will also visit damaged Singh Sabha Gurdwara and hold a meeting with officers to assess the damage in the worst-hit district, they said.
The home minister will also visit Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Poonch and interact with the jawans before returning to Delhi, the officials said.
