Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday chaired a security review meeting on Kashmir, amid targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits that have triggered demands from the community to be relocated to Jammu.

The meeting was attended by Jammu and Kashmir lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, home secretary A.K. Bhalla, senior officials of the National Investigation Agency, Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force, director-general of police of Jammu and Kashmir and the chiefs of the Intelligence Bureau and RAW.

“The issue of targeted killings and attacks on Kashmiri Pandits was discussed. Besides, the ongoing protest by Pandits was also taken up,” said a home ministry official.

“During the meeting today, Amit Shah expressed his objection to the relocation of Kashmiri Pandits to Jammu,” said a security official.

The official said any efforts to relocate Pandits could be seen as a setback to the “all-is-well” narrative of the Centre.

Scores of Kashmiri Pandits, rehabilitated in Kashmir under a Prime Minister’s package in 2012, have been demanding that they be shifted to Jammu. The protests started after the killing of Rahul Bhat, a clerk employed under the Prime Minister’s package, on May 12 by militants. Around 6,000 Pandit employees are boycotting office. Many have fled to Jammu.

Last week, lieutenant governor Sinha warned that salaries would not be paid to those employees “sitting at their homes”.

A home ministry media statement said on Wednesday: “Amit Shah reviewed the functioning of the security grid and various aspects related to security and gave necessary directions to follow the policy of zero tolerance against terrorism.”