India, Feb. 7 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday directed the security forces to launch an all-out offensive against the foreign terrorists hiding inside thickly forested areas across Jammu and Kashmir.

The diktat was issued by the Home Minister while chairing a high-level security review meeting along with Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and top brass of the various security and intelligence agencies here at Lok Bhavan in Jammu.

The meeting, which was also attended by the Union Home Secretary, Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Director General of the Border Security Force, DGP J&K police, and senior Army officers of the Northern Command, was convened close on the heels of the neutralisation of three Pakistan-based terro...