New Delhi: The just concluded three day Director Generals of Police (DGP) Conference in Bhubaneswar saw a significant shift when it came to the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. Security personnel stand guard during a search operation on Srinagar-Ladakh highway following a terrorist attack, in Ganderbal district, Jammu & Kashmir on October 21, 2024. (PTI) For perhaps the first time since the 1990s, the issue of law and order in the UT was not discussed separately, but as part of the larger border management strategy of the NDA government, according to people with first-hand information of the matter. The DGP/IGPs conference was attended by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. To be sure, there were informal chats, over meals, on J&K, but the very fact that no separate session was devoted to it underlines the improvement the UT has seen since 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated. The J and K police on its part is working towards deglamorising terrorists by treating terror strikes under the ambit of law and order …