On Sunday, the government announced that the security of separatist leaders in Jammu and Kashmir including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has been withdrawn.  The move comes in the wake of the deadliest attack on security forces in Kashmir that left 40 CRPF personnel dead. On Friday (February 15), Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that the government was planning to review the security of the people working at the behest of Pakistan and its intelligence agency ISI in an apparent reference to separatist leaders.

Singh told reporters at the end of his day-long visit to Kashmir  that "There are elements and forces who take money from Pakistan and the ISI. I have asked the officials concerned to review their security,". The home minister said some elements in Jammu and Kashmir had links with the ISI and terrorist organisation, but the government would defeat their designs. He further said "Such people are playing with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and the future of the state's youth. Our war against terror is in a decisive phase and I want to assure the nation that we will win it,".

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The home minister, who arrived in the state following the worst terror attack on security forces in the past three decades, also visited the injured jawans undergoing treatment at a hospital.

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