Home Secretary Pillai to visit Srinagar

Srinagar, Jul 7 (PTI) India's Home Secretary G K
Pillai will visit Srinagar Wednesday to review the law and
order situation in violence-hit Kashmir.
He is scheduled to meet Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah and some top officials of the state government,
official sources said.
The Cabinet Committee on Security had met in New
Delhi Wednesday morning and is understood to have discussed
the situation in Kashmir where army has been deployed to
assist the civil authorities in restoring normalcy following
violence.
The meeting, chaired by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, reviewed the situation in the wake of the spiralling
protests here following the killing of three persons Tuesday.
Army staged a flag march in some areas of curfew-bound
Srinagar Wednesday morning.
Home Minister P Chidambaram, Defence Minister A K
Antony, Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrashekar, NSA Shiv Shankar
Menon, Home Secretary Pillai, and Defence Secretary Pradeep
Kumar attended the meeting.
There was no official word on any decision taken at
the hour-long meeting.
The government of the northernmost Indian state of
Jammu & Kashmir had on Tuesday sought the help of the army
after curfew was imposed in the city.
Earlier, Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju
had said that army would remain on the streets in Srinagar
till it was necessary, but the government would like it to be
short. PTI