Lashkar and Jaish to dominate Hyderabad DGP Conference

NEW DELHI: Pakistan-based terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) will dominate this year’s annual directors-general of police (DGPs) conference likely to be held in Hyderabad next month.

The threeday conference will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be hosted at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, said officials.

While the dates are yet to be finalised, officials said they were planning to organise it in the third week of November. Agenda is being finalised by the Intelligence Bureau in consultations with states.

The conference is likely to focus on the recent infiltration by militants from across the border and how to financially choke resources of terror groups like LeT and JeM with international cooperation.

Top cops will make impromptu presentations on various internal security topics. Like last year, a yoga session is also likely to be organised. Home minister Rajnath Singh and ministers of state, Kiren Rijiju and Hansraj Ahir, besides NSA Ajit Doval, will also attend the meeting.

The top agenda, as per officials, will be internal security in J&K.

The unrest in the state that snowballed into permanent cycle of violence and ways to tackle it may also be discussed, said officials. The case study on the recent success against IS is also likely to be shared by Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala.