Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday chaired a meeting with police chiefs of all states and directors-general of the central paramilitary forces.

Sources in the security establishment said the minister reviewed the security situation across the country, including the recent killings of civilians by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, during the closed-door meeting.

About a dozen civilians, seven of them non-Muslim, have been killed since October 1 in the deadliest spurt in violence the Valley has witnessed in years. Five of the dead were migrant workers. One of the 12 civilians killed was a Kashmiri Pandit businessman, Makhan Lal Bindroo.

National security adviser Ajit Doval and Intelligence Bureau director Arvind Kumar also attended the meeting besides directors-general of the BSF and ITBP.

“The security situation in the wake of the latest civilian killings in Kashmir was discussed threadbare during the meeting. The situation in the Valley is very challenging,” a security official said.