After the bombings, India increases security for the G20 meeting in IIOJK.

NEW DELHI AND SRINAGAR:

Officials claimed on Wednesday that India has increased security in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) region due to an uptick in attacks by freedom fighters in the run-up to a G20 meeting on tourism in the occupied territory.

Srinagar, the occupied territory’s summer capital, will host a tourism working group meeting of G20 members on May 22-24, as part of a series of events leading up to a G20 summit in New Delhi in September.

This year, freedom fighters have increased attacks in the Jammu region, which is located across the mountains from the Kashmir Valley, where Srinagar is located.

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This year, four attacks in Jammu have killed ten soldiers and seven civilians.

Security officials are concerned that separatists would try to promote their cause by carrying out an attack before or during the G20 gathering.

“The timing of these attacks is concerning because they are planned just before the G20 meeting,” a senior Indian army official in the region stated. He did not want to be identified since he is not licenced to speak to the media.

Military and police officers said they received knowledge that freedom fighters were planning to target a military-run school in Jammu and kidnap pupils.

As a result, they added, such institutions had been closed and classes had been shifted online until after the G20 meeting.

Officers added that security forces are not taking any chances in Srinagar.

According to Vijay Kumar, chief of police in IIOJK, commandos have been deployed in the city, and members of a counter-terrorism unit will be stationed in various locations.

Since 1989, Srinagar has been at the epicentre of a separatist insurgency against Indian control. Tens of thousands of people have been slain as a result of Indian forces’ aggression in the occupied valley. Pakistan accuses India of infringing on the rights of Kashmiri Muslims.