Jammu: A high-level meeting of Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) began on April 24 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 on April 24 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.

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

The MHA meeting, which is being held in Jammu for the first time, is being attended by Border Security Force (BSF) deputy general (DG) Ajay Raj Sharma, Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) DG R C Aggarwal, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) DG F P Sahie, Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) DG Ashok Suri, Military Intelligence (MI) DG lieutenant general Richard Khare and Military Operation (MO) DG lieutenant general D S Thakur among others, sources said.

PTI