G20 working group As Srinagar is set to host the G20 working group meeting on tourism beginning today (Monday), stringent security arrangements are in place across the Kashmir Valley to ensure the three-day event goes off smoothly.
The Srinagar G20 meeting is the first major international event in Jammu and Kashmir, since the central govt abrogated article 370 and bifurcated the state into two Union Territories Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh in 2019.
G20 working group Security forces have been put on high alert after receiving input that terrorist organisations could conspire to carry out a 26/11 type attack during the G20 Meeting at the behest of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI. Security forces on duty for the G20 summit will carry special identification passes to avert any threats from terrorists in Srinagar.
Security forces from the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will be guarding all the roads from where delegates will reach for the meeting in the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC). At least 60 delegates are expected to participate in the meeting.
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Srinagar is all set to host the third G20 Tourism Working Group meeting on Monday, all preparation has been put in place and security has been kept on high alert as this is the first major international event after Jammu and Kashmir’s special status was scrapped in 2019. For this three-day G20 Summit, from May 22-24, Kashmir is under a three-tier security grid for aerial surveillance drone monitoring is put in place National Security Guard (NSG) and MARCOS commandos are being deployed around the venue Jammu and Kashmir Police’s special operation group (SOG) will be deployed at several places to give security cover to prevent from any terror incident.
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