New army chief to visit J&K Wednesday

Jammu, Apr 19:  New Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh will visit Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday for the first time since assuming office. Singh will visit all the three major regions of the state - Jammu, Ladakh and the Kashmir Valley. He will review the situation with Northern Command chief Lt. General B.S. Jaswal, and the corps commanders about the level of preparedness along the Line of Control, as also along the Line of Actual Control -- the border with China in Ladakh region -- in light of incursions from across.’ Preparations are on for the visit and each and every detail of the army's strategy and its challenges will be placed before the new chief,' an army officer said. The new army chief's statement last week that dilution in the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir and other insurgency-hit areas in India Jammu, Apr 19:  New Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh will visit Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday for the first time since assuming office. Singh will visit all the three major regions of the state - Jammu, Ladakh and the Kashmir Valley. He will review the situation with Northern Command chief Lt. General B.S. Jaswal, and the corps commanders about the level of preparedness along the Line of Control, as also along the Line of Actual Control -- the border with China in Ladakh region -- in light of incursions from across.’ Preparations are on for the visit and each and every detail of the army's strategy and its challenges will be placed before the new chief,' an army officer said. The new army chief's statement last week that dilution in the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir and other insurgency-hit areas in India would hurt the operations of the army has not gone down well with the separatists. Agencies