High-level security meet in Jammu

A high-level meeting of the Union home ministry on Thursday began in Jammu to chart out a fresh strategy to deal with Pakistan-sponsored proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said.

Soon after its arrival from New Delhi this morning, a 14-member central team started a closed-door meeting with the security and law and order agencies of the state, they said.

"The security meet would study all aspects of the ground level security situation in the state, measures to check rising infiltration and neutralising militants, mostly mercenaries," they added.

The team would take a fresh look on intelligence inputs on the activities of militants and their supporters on the other side of the border, they said.

After the meeting, a fresh strategy to deal with militancy would be formulated keeping in view the ground level changes in J&K after the coalition government led by Mufti Mohammed Sayeed took over.