Omar reviews security in Kashmir

JAMMU - Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah reviewed the security situation in the troubled state Wednesday in the aftermath of a guerrilla attack in Srinagar.

State’s police chief Kuldeep Khoda has been asked to rushed to the summer capital where pro-Pakistan militants attacked a paramilitary picket killing a police constable and injuring eight civilians.

General Officer Commanding in Chief of the Northern Command Lt. Gen. B.S. Jaswal, who is one of the security advisors of the chief minister, met Abdullah at his residence.

The attack has caught the security agencies by surprise amid claims that the violence has been steeply falling the terror-riven state.