NIA conference to focus on Pakistan-backed terror threats. (Img: X)
New Delhi: Amid renewed terrorist activity in Jammu and Kashmir, the National Investigation Agency(NIA) will host a two-day anti-terror conference in the national capital on November 19 and 20, with a focus on Pakistan-backed terrorism, radicalisation, terror financing and the growing threat of narco-terrorism.
Official sources said the scheduled conference is expected to deliberate on emerging challenges posed by terrorist networks operating with support from across the border, attempts at radicalisation within the country and overseas, and strategies to dismantle the financial and logistical networks sustaining terrorism.
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The issue of infiltration from Pakistan is also expected to figure prominently in the deliberations, particularly against the backdrop of a fresh spate of attacks targeting security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. The conference comes days after Pakistan-backed terrorists carried out an attack on a CRPF patrol party at Akhran in Kulgam district on Wednesday, leaving three personnel injured.
Meanwhile, the CRPF Director General G P Singh said that the three are recovering and are out of danger. Security experts believe the latest attack reflects an attempt by Pakistan-based handlers to revive instability in the Union Territory after a prolonged period of relative calm.
Former Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police S P Vaid said the declining number of locally recruited terrorists had prompted Pakistan-based handlers to increasingly depend on foreign terrorists to create disturbances.
"There are not many local terrorists left in Jammu and Kashmir. Whatever 60-70 remain, the majority of them are foreign terrorists. This has prompted Pakistani terror handlers to create anarchy in the region", Vaid said.
Meanwhile, security forces have launched an extensive manhunt for Mohammad Latief Bhat alias Lateef Bhat, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander associated with its proxy outfit, The Resistance Front (TRF). He is currently among the most wanted terrorists in the Kashmir Valley.
