Article 370 to be abrogated: Amit Shah announces in RS

This comes at a time when the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir continues to be on the edge.The announcement came after a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, where the PM, Home Minister Amit Shah and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met at the PM's residence.This meeting was preceded by another meeting that started an hour earlier in which Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was also present.These key meetings were held after mobile internet services were suspended in Jammu, in view of the prevailing security situation in the region.In Jammu, the government has imposed Section 144, which prevents the gathering of more than four in the area.Kashmir has been on the edge in the wake of a massive security build-up. Leaders of all major political parties in the state met here on Sunday and urged India and Pakistan not to take any step which may disturb the peace and escalate tensions between the two countries.On August 2, the Indian Army had said that Pakistani terrorists are plotting to carry out an attack on the ongoing Amarnath Yatra and that the security forces have recovered a Pakistan Ordnance Factory anti-personnel mine from a terror cache.

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